The Farnese Hercules

ca. 1650 (Baroque)

16 cm 33.6 cm 12.5 cm

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This statuette, depicting the demigod Hercules resting between his labors, is a reduction of a colossal marble statue (over 10 ft. high) executed by the sculptor Glykon in the early 3rd century. It, in turn, was modeled after a lost original 4th-century BC bronze statue by the...

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Raoul Heilbronner, Paris, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase, Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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