A WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF THE FARNESE HERCULES, after the Antique, the naked hero leaning against a tree stump covered with a lion skin, his right arm behind his back, on a square base, second half 19th century

A WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF THE FARNESE HERCULES, after the Antique, the naked hero leaning against a tree stump covered with a lion skin, his right arm behind his back, on a square base, second half 19th century

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The present figure is after the Antique original formerly in the Farnese collection, when it was displayed in the courtyard of the Palazzo Farnese, Rome, and now in the Museo Nationale, Naples. It is thought to be an enlarged version made by Glycon in the 3rd century A.D., for the Baths of Caracella, of a statue of the same hero produced by Lysippus or his school. (See footnote to lot 360)

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