Torso of Hercules Resting (Fragment)

ca. 1550-1575 (Late Renaissance) H: 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm) Citation Source image

This marble torso appears to be a fragment of a small-scale copy after a famous lost bronze statue by the Greek sculptor Lysippos (ca. 320 BCE) of the hero Hercules. Here he leans on his club after completing the last of his labors: retrieving the golden apples of the Hesperid...

Sculpture

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20681
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Dattari Sale, Cairo, no. 336 [""from Egypt"" ]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, after 1912; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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