ECL-Bm.14:10-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.14:10-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Statue : young Hercules
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Sampson catalogue states : Fa 4: Statues in several Palaces in Rome etc with other antiquities.
The drawings, by a variety of artists are sometimes stuck to the pages of this volume and do not keep to the place allotted to them by number. Three drawings are missing.
The drawings, by a variety of artists are sometimes stuck to the pages of this volume and do not keep to the place allotted to them by number. Three drawings are missing.
Description
Content (description)
The child stands holding out an apple (?) in his left hand, with some object in his right hand by his side. He wears a lion skin over his head, clasped round his neck and draped over his left arm. By his left leg is a tree trunk. The drawing conveys something of the colossal size of the statue.
Content (object)
statue
Content (note)
Sampson catalogue states: On the Capitol
Dimensions
height (actual size): 419mm
width (actual size): 272mm
width (actual size): 272mm
Inscription
Heros Aventinus in Capitolio written in ink on the front of the drawing lower right.
Stefano Pozzi signed in red chalk lower left
Stefano Pozzi signed in red chalk lower left
Materials & techniques note
Red chalk and red pencil on paper.
Production
Person
Pozzi, Stefano, 1699 - 1768 (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Fuhrer (no. 1399 In the Museo Capitolino)
