Caption:
Mercury. Artist: After a composition by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (French, 1714-1785). Culture: French. Dimensions: Height: 22 in. (55.9 cm). Date: probably 19th century, after a model of ca. 1741.
The piece is a cast copy after Pigalle's original model for his celebrated marble Mercury, completed in 1744, in the Musée du Louvre, Paris.