Lot n° 200
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Antonio CANOVA (1758-1822) after - Lot 200
Antonio CANOVA (1758-1822) after
Folly of Hercules killing his children - Hercules and Lichas.
Proof in bronze with black patina, titled in a cartouche in the lower part.
H.: 42,5 cm.
The marble group from which this bronze is taken was bought by the banker Antonio Torlonnia for his Roman palace. It is now kept at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome. The episode represents Hercules, taken by madness, throwing into the sea the son of his wife Dejarine. Hercules becomes furious after having put on the shirt of the centaur Nessé which consumes his body. He throws Lichas who had brought it to him into the sea.
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