A PAIR OF GILT-BRASS, EBONISED WOOD AND ROSEWOOD PANELS DEPICTING SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF HERCULES

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A PAIR OF GILT-BRASS, EBONISED WOOD AND ROSEWOOD PANELS DEPICTING SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF HERCULES
GERMAN, 17TH CENTURY

The reverses of each with ebonised wooden mouldings and with numerous labels including one inscribed 'E. IMBERT ANTIQUARIO M NAPOLEONE 38/MILANO'.
Several sections of the rosewood border lacking; numerous minor cracks and damages.
19¾ x 13¾in. (50.2 x 34.9cm.) each (2)

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
H. Weihrauch, Europäische Bronzestatuetten - 15.-18. Jahrhundert, Braunschweig, 1967, pp. 271, 277, 509, n. 304, fig. 321
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Prag um 1600 - Kunst und Kultur am Hofe Rudolfs II, 1988, p. 277, no. 155, illustrated

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Although these two reliefs both depict stories concerning Hercules, they are based on different types of source, which also date from different periods. The representation of Hercules and Antaeus is copied from a small bronze made around 1510 by Peter Vischer the Elder, of which the most celebrated version is in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich (Weihrauch, op. cit., p. 271, fig. 321). The scene of Hercules and Omphale, by contrast, is based on a painting by Bartholomäus Spranger, executed for the Emperor Rudolph II in the mid 1590's, and now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (Vienna, loc. cit.). Although the figure of Hercules is changed, Omphale with the humiliated hero's club is identical.