A BRONZE PLAQUETTE OF HERCULES WRESTLING A CENTAUR

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A BRONZE PLAQUETTE OF HERCULES WRESTLING A CENTAUR
AFTER MODERNO

Signed 'O MODERNI'
Dark brown patina
2¾in. (7cm.) high

Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
J. Pope-Hennessy, Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, London, 1965, no. 136, p. 43, fig. 155
D. Lewis, 'The Plaquettes of "Moderno" and his followers', in Italian Plaquettes (ed. A. Luchs), Studies in the History of Art, vol. 22, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1989, pp. 110-11, fig. 5, p. 140, cat. no. I, 6