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| Keywords: Italian - The Farnese Hercules - Walters 54727.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Anonymous Italian <br/> This statuette depicting the demigod Hercules resting between his labors is a reduction of a colossal marble statue over 10 ft high executed by the sculptor Glykon in the early 3rd century It in turn was modeled after a lost original 4th-century BC bronze statue by the famous Greek sculptor Lysippus In 1546 Glykon's statue was discovered during an excavation in Rome and was displayed in the garden of the palace belonging to the Farnese family hence its name it is now in the National Archeological Museum Naples The statue with its impressive rendering of Hercules's physique was instantly famous and admiration for it was reflected in the widespread ownership of small and full-size copies While in Rome the great Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens 1576-1640 made drawings of the colossus that he used for his paintings There was even a full-size plaster cast in a 17th-century collection in Antwerp ca 1650 Baroque bronze with marble base cm 33 6 accession number 54 727 19489 Raoul Heilbronner Paris by purchase Henry Walters Baltimore 1909 by purchase Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1909 Children of Mercury The Education of Artists in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Brown University Bell Gallery List Art Center Providence 1984 place of origin Rome Italy Walters Art Museum license Baroque sculpture in the Walters Art Museum Ancient Roman sculptures in the Walters Art Museum Ancient Greek sculptures in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs artist review Replicas of the Hercules Farnese | ||||
