A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF THE FARNESE HERCULES, after the Antique, the hero shown naked except for a fig leaf, leaning against a tree stump draped with his lion skin, late 18th or early 19th Century

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A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF THE FARNESE HERCULES, after the Antique, the hero shown naked except for a fig leaf, leaning against a tree stump draped with his lion skin, late 18th or early 19th Century

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A ROMAN BRONZE FIGURE OF THE FARNESE HERCULES, after the Antique, the hero shown naked except for a fig leaf, leaning against a tree stump draped with his lion skin, late 18th or early 19th Century
15¼in. (38.7cm.) high

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
F. Haskell & N. Penny, Taste and the Antique, London, 1981, pp. 342-3

Lot Essay

The fine quality of the casting and of the chiselling on the present bronze suggest that this Hercules may have come from the celebrated Zoffoli or Righetti workshops for the Grand Tourist market. Both Roman makers included a Farnese Hercules in their lists for sale ( F. Haskell & N. Penny, op.cit.)

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