Three signed and dated terracotta groups of Labours of Hercules by Stefano Maderno are in the Cà d'Oro in Venice. Of these, the Hercules and Antaeus of 1622 (Nava Cellini, pl. XII) is the most celebrated, principally because of the bronze version that was made of it. As Pope-Hennessy puts it, this 'achieved considerable popularity' (loc. cit.), and is known in a number of examples (Weihrauch, op. cit., fig. 299, for one in Dresden). They are on the same scale as the terracotta, and differ from it in only one significant respect: Hercules' lionskin, which acts as a structural support in the terracotta, is omitted. The present example is not identical in composition to the Dresden bronze, however, because it represents Antaeus with his right arm upraised as opposed to clawing at Hercules' face, and shows the latter without a figleaf.