The Bateman Mercury

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The Bateman Mercury

Roman, 2nd-century copy after a Greek original of the 4th century B.C.
Sculpture
Marble
76 × 30 × 23 in. (193.04 × 76.2 × 58.42 cm) Weight: 1222 lb. (554.3 kg)
William Randolph Hearst Collection (48.24.15)
Greek, Roman and Etruscan Art
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Ebert-Schifferer, S. Natur und Antike in der Renaissance: Ausstellung im Liebieghaus Museum alter Platsik. Frankfurt am Main: Liebieghaus Museum alter Plastik, 1985.
  • Levkoff, Mary L., ed. Hearst the collector. Exh. Cat. New York: Abrams and Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008.
  • Ebert-Schifferer, S. Natur und Antike in der Renaissance: Ausstellung im Liebieghaus Museum alter Platsik. Frankfurt am Main: Liebieghaus Museum alter Plastik, 1985.
  • Levkoff, Mary L., ed. Hearst the collector. Exh. Cat. New York: Abrams and Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008.

  • Marandel, J. Patrice. Abecedario: Collecting and Recollecting. Los Angeles: Art Catalogues; LACMA, 2017.

  • King, Jennifer, ed. Vera Lutter: Museum in the Camera. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2020.

  • Levkoff, Mary. "Hearst and the Antique." Apollo 168, no.558 (October 2008): 52-60.

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