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A Bronze Statuette of Zeus in the Museum at Saint-Germain
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 September 2012
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In 1857, J. F. Boudon de Saint-Amans published in Agen an illustrated octavo Essai sur les antiquités de Lot-et-Garonne. On page 198 of that work the bronze figure which we here reproduce (plate XIII) is thus described:
“Petite statue de Jupiter en bronze trouvée à Saint-Côme près d'Aiguillon. On ne saurait voir en ce genre rien de plus parfait que cette figurine … Cette petite statue, haute de 6 pouces, dont les yeux et les extrémités du pénis sont en or, appartient à M. le vicomte de Vivens, membre du Conseil général du departement de Lot-et-Garonne.”
On plate 22 there is a very poor outline engraving which, not knowing then the original, I caused to be reproduced in the Répertoire de la statuaire, vol. ii (1898), p. 10, no. 2.
Three years later, in July 1901, the statuette, then belonging to the Marquis de Poyen, at Barry near Clairac (Lot-et-Garonne), was offered for sale to the national museums. I secured it for Saint-Germain at the low price of 1,250 francs (£50) and now publish it for the first time in a manner worthy of its interest and excellence.
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page 63 note 1 Overbeck, , Kunstmythologie, ii, 14Google Scholar. The first statuette in this list (formerly Pourtalès) is now in Chantilly; it was discovered at Besançon, together with the archaistic Minerva published by Heuzey (Monuments Piot, vol. iv).
page 65 note 1 Arndt-Amelung, n. 547.
page 65 note 2 Mus. Pio Clem. iv, 2. fig.
page 65 note 3 There is also an imitation on a painting (Gazette archéol. 1883, pl. 15) and others on coins.
page 65 note 4 Amelung, Florentiner Antiken, 7, and Führer in Florenz, 263. A good lithograph of the Florentine statuette is in Overbeck, , Kunstmythologie, ii, 17Google Scholar.
page 65 note 5 Aus der Anomia, 69.
page 65 note 3 Meisterwerke, 747.
page 65 note 7 Art. Jupiter in the Dict. of Saglio, 703.
page 65 note 8 Brunn-Bruckmann, nos. 122, 301, 302, 462, 463.
page 66 note 1 Loc. cit. note.
page 66 note 2 See Furtwängler's observations about the Polycleitan bronze Hermes found in Gaul and now in the British Museum (Meisterwerke, 427).
page 66 note 3 I published two excellent heliogravures from that statue, one in the (unfinished) Album des musées de province (1890), another as title-page to the Bronzes figurés de la Gaule romaine (1894).
page 67 note 1 Jahrbuch, 1898, p. 197.
page 67 note 2 Dict. arch. de la Gaule, s.v. Aiguillon.