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Hercules and Antaeus
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Hercules and Antaeus
- Object:
Figure group
- Place of origin:
France (made)
- Date:
ca. 1850 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown (production)
- Materials and Techniques:
Cast bronze
- Credit Line:
Bequeathed by Norman Bloom, in memory of Mrs Florence Bloom
- Museum number:
A.3-2003
- Gallery location:
In Storage
This large-scale group shows the Greek hero Hercules wrestling with the giant Antaeus, who gained his strength from contact with the earth. Hercules is therefore shown struggling with Antaeus and lifting him from the ground to weaken and overcome him. This subject was a popular one from the renaissance onwards. This group is probably derived from a seventeenth-century French example, although it is a later cast.
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