Infant Hercules strangling two serpents

after the model by Francesco Fanelli (Anglo-Italian 1577 – ca. 1657)

cast 18^th century

dark and changing light brownish patinated bronze
green marble plinth later

Measurement: 23 cm high, 13.5 cm wide, 13.5 cm deep

Relatable Literature:
E. van Binnebeke, Bronze sculpture. Sculpture 1500-1800 in the collection of the Boymans-van Beuningen Musuem, Rotterdam, 1994, pp. 132-133, no. 38
Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 2002, pp. 168-171, no. 23