This is a reduction of the celebrated Farnese Hercules propably found in the Baths of Caracalla in 1546. In 1556 it was in the Palazzo Farnese until 1782 when it was first transferred to the porcelain factory at Capodimonte and then to the Museo Nazionale in Naples. It is believed that the Hercules in the Museo Nazionale is an enlarged version, made by Glycon for the Baths of Caracalla in the early third Century AD of a statue by lysippus or his school