Lot 999 D α

Two marble plaques with Heracles and Omphale

Auction 1152 - overview Cologne
29.05.2020, 14:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 30.000 € - 40.000 €
Result: 37.500 € (incl. premium)

Two marble plaques with Heracles and Omphale

White and grey bas relief marble plaques depicting Omphale dressed in the pelt of the Nemean lion, holding the club of Heracles and Heracles himself standing on a rocky plinth dressed in a drapery and holding the tamed, two-headed Cerberus on a leash. With a retouched breakage to the chest of Heracles. H 65, W 52 cm.
Rome, 19th C.

Provenance

North Italian collection.