ECL-Bm.14:35-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.14:35-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Statue fragment: leg of Hercules and Hydra
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Sampson catalogue states :
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.
Sampson catalogue states that Fa 4 describes: ' A fragment of ye same as it was restored by Algardi'
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.
Sampson catalogue states that Fa 4 describes: ' A fragment of ye same as it was restored by Algardi'
Description
Content (description)
The fragment shows the left leg of Hercules in front of the Hydra, wound round a tree trunk, as in Bm 14.34
Content (object)
statue
Content (note)
Now in the Museo Capitolino, Galleria no. 61.
Dimensions
height (actual size): 432mm
width (actual size): 286mm
width (actual size): 286mm
Inscription
In aedib. Verospi written in ink on the front of the drawing lower right
Giovanni Bigatti fe. signed in red pencil lower left
Giovanni Bigatti fe. signed in red pencil lower left
Materials & techniques note
red chalk and red pencil on paper
Production
Person
Unknown (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Führer (no. 1230)
