A Neapolitan bronze figure of Hercules holding the Golden Apples of the Hesperides

18TH CENTURY

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A Neapolitan bronze figure of Hercules holding the Golden Apples of the Hesperides
18th century
The god shown standing draped with a lion pelt and leaning on a tree stump, clutching the apples in his left hand and holding his club in the right, on a naturalistic oval base
22in. (57.8cm) high
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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Haskel & Penny, Taste and the Antique, Yale, Newhaven and London 1981. P.227-232, figs.117-118.

拍品專文

The present sculpture owes much in form to that of the Farnese Hercules (Museo Nazionale, Naples). The lineature of the torso and positioning of the feet are almost identical. The pelt in this instance, however is draped, arguably more dramatically, over Hercules's left shoulder, rather than the tree stump, and his club supported by his left hand and resting by his feet. Favourable aesthetic comparisons, in respect of the latter, may also be drawn with the Bronze Hercules (Rome, Musei Capitolini, Palazzo dei Conservatori); the club in this is instance supported at an uncomfortable angle above the ground.