Aged Herakles

Roman copy: 1st century BCE-1st century CE; Greek original: 3rd century BCE (Hellenistic-Roman Imperial)

23.8 cm 43 cm 14 cm

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This bronze statuette depicts a heavy-set Herakles in a rare moment of quiet. His shoulders are covered with a lion skin that gathers in a generous fold behind his neck. The drooping lion skin is visual contrast to Herakles' fully muscled body. The rich curls of the lion's man...

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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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