Bronze statue of Mercury tying his heels

Bronze statue of Mercury tying his heels, reproduction of the bronze sculpture of Jean-Baptiste Pigalle in bronze.

Bronze statue made using lost wax on a genuine black marble base.

Height: 47 cm – Width: 22 cm – Depth: 20 cm.

Weight: 8,6 kg.

Mercury tying his heels – Reproduction of the bronze statue of Jean-Baptiste Pigalle.

Ready to leap from the rock on which he is sitting, Mercury, the messenger of the gods, attaches the winged heels, which will allow him, with the fins of his helmet, the winged petasus, to take flight.

Pigalle was admitted to the Academy in 1741 with a Mercury which he executed for its reception in 1744. At the Salon of 1742, the sculptor presented a significantly larger plaster model of this subject, paired with a Venus, which were executed in marble for the king and given in 1750 to Frederick II of Prussia.