Null Youthful Heracles. Gallo-Roman, 1st - 2nd century A.D. H 10.8cm. Cast bronz…
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Youthful Heracles. Gallo-Roman, 1st - 2nd century A.D. H 10.8cm. Cast bronze. Votive figure in the form of a slender, naked youth with curly hair and a club in his raised right hand, which passes the back of his head on the left. The lion's skin falls down over the lowered right forearm. The left leg is sweepingly set back. Cf.: G. Faiser-Feytmans. Le Bronzes Romains de Belgique, (1979) p. 76 f. Cat. no. 62d. Glossy black-green patina, intact. Provenance: ex Gorny & Mosch 300, Munich 2023, lot 119; ex F.D. Collection, Paris. Acquired from Jean-Philippe Mariaud de Serres in the 1990s.

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Youthful Heracles. Gallo-Roman, 1st - 2nd century A.D. H 10.8cm. Cast bronze. Votive figure in the form of a slender, naked youth with curly hair and a club in his raised right hand, which passes the back of his head on the left. The lion's skin falls down over the lowered right forearm. The left leg is sweepingly set back. Cf.: G. Faiser-Feytmans. Le Bronzes Romains de Belgique, (1979) p. 76 f. Cat. no. 62d. Glossy black-green patina, intact. Provenance: ex Gorny & Mosch 300, Munich 2023, lot 119; ex F.D. Collection, Paris. Acquired from Jean-Philippe Mariaud de Serres in the 1990s.

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