Roman Style Marble Torso with Lionskin

19TH CENTURY A.D. OR EARLIER

5 1/2 in. (508 grams, 14 cm).

Modelled as a muscular nude torso with lionskin draped over the left shoulder.

Provenance

Acquired in the 1980s.
From an interesting European collection of marbles.
Property of a European gentleman.

Footnotes

Probably intended to depict Hercules, who customarily wore a lionskin.

CONDITION

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LOT 2107