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Peace Holding The Child Abundance (Reconstruction) August Gerber (cast maker)

Artist

August Gerber (cast maker) Köln

Date 2nd century AD (original), 1907 (plaster cast)
Object type plaster cast
Medium, technique plaster
Dimensions

230 x 120 x 70 cm

Inventory number Ag.49
Collection Classical Antiquites - Plaster casts
On view Star Fortress (Komárom), Classical Greek and Classicising Roman Art: Athenian Funerary Monuments, Gallery V

This piece is a scientific reconstruction of a famous Greek statue, which was assembled on the basis of several Roman works of art. The Roman pieces were adaptations of the statue of an Athenian sculptor, Kephisodotos, which depicted Eirene — Peace. The goddess wears a thick robe (peplos) and a thin mantle, and holds an infant in her left arm. The child is Ploutos or Abundance, identified by the horn of plenty beside him. The goddess looks at him tenderly, as if he was her child — abundance is born of peace. The statue was erected on the Agora of Athens to commemorate a peace treaty.

References

Süvegh, Eszter, Katalógus. Kiemelt művek a Szépművészeti Múzeum antik, középkori és reneszánsz gipszmásolat-gyűjteményéből,: In: Szőcs M. (szerk.): Egy gyűjtemény újjászületése: a Szépművészeti Múzeum gipsz szobormásolatai a megújult komáromi Csillagerődben., Budapest, no. 11.

Hekler, Antal, Az antik gipszgyűjtemény I-II., Budapest, 1919-1920, 1923, no. no. 269.

This record is subject to revision due to ongoing research.

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