Hermes Scarf Designs - Some Source Material

Many of the older Hermes designs are interpretations of actual objects. Those lucky enough to get invited into the Hermes Museum at their headquarters, 24 Faubourg in Paris,will be able to see many of the items used during the long process to get from artwork to finished scarf....all of the items in Memoires d'Hermes for instance.. andthe actual toy Mexican Horse used in the recentdesign.
There are other places where the source material can be found too. Here are a few examples I have gee across this week....
Cirque Molier............an easy one.................... detail from a Cirque MolierPoster...available on okay!!

Gloire d'Alexandre...how about a trip to Italy to see.........the Alexander Mosaic in the House of Faun, Pompeii...now in Naples.
...what I always took to be the smoke of the Battle of Guagamela (331BC) around Alexander...are in fact bits missing from the mosaic!

Grotte de Versailles.............here is acontemporary etching of the Grotte de Thetys byG and B Marcy,1670.. and still there at Versailles.

Real Escuela Andaluza del Arte Ecuestre......... andthe source?....a publicity photograph from their website!!

La Fontaine de Bartholdi..........................straight from the actual fountain, just down the road from the Hermes Factory,
in La Place des Terreaux, Lyon........made by Auguste Bartholdi in 1888, a couple of years after he hadfinished the Statue of Liberty!

Please click the YES box if this Guide has spurred you on to do someInternet research of your own.... and maybe go to see some of these original works of art? Have a look at some of my other Guides on Hermes source materialviathis More Source Material Link, and the others onHermes fakes, counterfeits and "reproductions"withthis Index Link.
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