A BRONZE FOUNTAIN GROUP OF HERCULES AND CERBERUS

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A BRONZE FOUNTAIN GROUP OF HERCULES AND CERBERUS
GERMAN, 17TH CENTURY

On a rectangular siena marble plinth; the two figures cast separately. Brown patina; Hercules formerly holding something in his left hand; the mouth of the central head of Cerberus drilled with a hole; minor plugs and casting flaws.
15¾in. (40cm.) high

出版

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
A. Gibbon, Bronzes français du grand siècle, Paris, 1985,
p. 38, fig. 44

拍品专文

Although the present bronze clearly reflects the influence of Giambologna, it does not correspond precisely to any of the bronzes in his Labours of Hercules series. Instead, the figure of the hero corresponds more closely, especially in the more horizontal angle of his right forearm, to his counterpart in a group of Hercules and Cacus formerly on the London art market (Gibbon, loc. cit.).