Marcellus as Hermes Logios is a sculpture ofMarcellus the Younger asHermes Logios, the god of eloquence, in Louvre (inv. 1207).
It was executed in marble (1.80 meters in height) circa 20 BC (i.e. 2 years after the nominal subject's death, possibly on his uncleAugustus's personal order as a funerary monument)
Statue is signed byCleomenes the Athenian (Kleomenes), but probably not the author of the Aphrodite Medici in Florence, but rather his son.[1]
It is the funerary variation ofHermes Ludovisi type with portrait head.[1]
Before 1590 it was housed inPope Sixtus V's villa on theEsquiline Hill. It was bought from the papal collections in 1664 byLouis XIV of France and placed in theHall of Mirrors at thePalace of Versailles.Napoleon brought it from there to theLouvre, Paris in 1802, where it now resides. Traditionally thought to be a portrait of Germanicus before the current attribution.
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