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Hercules Sculpture Bronze France XIX Century
France First Quarter XIX Century
Standing Hercules sculpture, wearing the skin of the Nemean lion; in gilded bronze, the removable club that he holds in his right hand is in burnished bronze, while in the opposite hand he holds the three golden apples of the garden of the Hesperides; the same arm rests on a walnut column as well as the base. It is a bronze also used as part of a clock from the early nineteenth century, known in several versions with small variations and is clearly inspired by the Farnese Hercules, in particular in the pensive attitude and in the posture of the legs: the sculpture was in fact known in France thanks to the numerous casts made on royal commission or for the Academies.