Bronze, hollow casting, patina in brown. The hero grabs with his left the neck of the creature and is brandishing with his right the cube to smash it's head right through it's open maw. Human and beast in high intensed posture. Repaired at the legs. Part of serie "Taten des Herkules" maybe after models of Giovanni da Bologna. Vgl. Bode, Bronzeststatuetten III, Taf. CCIX. Source: Hugo Helbing Kunsthandlung and Kunstversteigerungshaus: Kunstbesitz eines Berliner Sammlers. Katalog Nr. 49; Math. Lempertz'sche Kunstversteigerung: Eine bekannte Süddeutsche Privatsammlung and anderer Privatbesitz, Katalog Nr. 395.
