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Decorative Relief: Hermes and the Infant Dionysos
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Hermes strides to the right, holding the infant Dionysos. Hermes wears a petosos (his three-cornered hat) and flowing chlamys. Dionysos is wrapped in a folded garment.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Albani Collection Rome (by 1808 to 1889(?)) [1]. [2] [Jeanette Brun Skulpturen der Antike] Zurich (by 1970) sold; to the Fogg Art Museum 1970.
[1] In 19th century references this relief is published as present at two different Albani family properties the Palazzo Albani (now the Palazzo Albani-Del Drago 19 Via delle Quattro Fontane Rome) and the Villa Albani (now the Villa Albani-Torlonia 91 Via Salaria Rome). In the first known reference Zoega 1808 it is described at the Palazzo Albani; in 1811 and 1862 it is described as at the Villa Albani; and from 1882 to 1889 publications again refer to it as located at the Palazzo Albani. Whether the sources not all of which entailed autopsy are confused as to the location or whether the relief was moved between these properties is not immediately apparent.
[2] Described as formerly in the LanckoroĊski collection in Vermeule and Brauer (1990 p. 109 no. 95); the source of this attribution is unknown.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum David M. Robinson Fund
Title: Decorative Relief: Hermes and the Infant Dionysos
Description:
Hermes strides to the right, holding the infant Dionysos.
Hermes wears a petosos (his three-cornered hat) and flowing chlamys.
Dionysos is wrapped in a folded garment.
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