Cast Gallery catalogue number: C124

Ganymede and the Eagle.

• Plaster cast: Height: unavailable.
• Copy of part of a piece of marble furniture decorated in high relief.
• The relief:
  • is thought by some to reproduce the Ganymede of Leochares.
  • was acquired by the Vatican before 1790 from the sculptor Pacetti who completed it.
  • is now in Vatican City, Musei Vaticani, Candelabri, inv. 2445.

Detailed Record

Commentary Prepared by Dr. Julia Lenaghan, Ashmolean Museum

C 124
Ganymede and Zeus; Vatican

Marble
Furniture
Italy, Vatican, Museo Chiaramonti