Hercules the Archer
Artist
Antoine Bourdelle
French, 1861–1929
DateModeled 1906–1909, Musee Bourdelle cast circa 1968–1969
MediumBronze
Dimensions15 3/8 × 23 1/4 × 8 1/4 in. (39 × 59 × 21 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Thomas S. Kenan III in honor of Lawrence J. Wheeler
Object number2018.11
On View
Not on viewPublished ReferencesIonel Jianou and Michel Dufet, Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (Paris: Arted Editions d’Art, 1965), 91; ibid. 3rd edition with the catalogue of sculptures completed, and numbered, The Great Sculptors (Paris: Arted Edition d’Art, 1984), 104 (a different example listed under no. 392).
Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Bourdelle Héraklés Archer, Naissance d’une œuvre (catalogue of the exhibition held at the Musée Bourdelle) (Paris: Editions Paris-Museums, 1992), 72, no. 2 (another study), illus. fig. 15.
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