Statuette of Hercules
2nd century AD
Place of ManufactureRome, Italy
Medium/TechniqueMarble from Göktepe, Turkey (near Aphrodisias)
DimensionsHeight: 57 cm (22 7/16 in.)
Credit LineBartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912
Accession number14.733
On View
On viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
ProvenanceSaid to have been found in Rome, between the Aventine and the Tiber [see note 1]. 1898, sold by Signor Marotti, Rome, to Edward Perry Warren (b. 1860 - d. 1928), London [note 2]; 1914, sold by Edward Perry Warren to the MFA for 2,500 pounds. (Accession date: August 6, 1914)
Notes:
[1] According to a letter from Edward Perry Warren dated May 7, 1914.
[2] According to Edward Perry Warren’s records. J. D. Beazley calls the statuette as "the Marotti Herakles" in Edward Perry Warren: The Biography of a Connoisseur (1941), p. 350.
Additional information:
In 1903, the statue was lent to the Burlington Fine Arts Club by Edward Perry Warren (Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art (1904), p. 13, no. 12).
Notes:
[1] According to a letter from Edward Perry Warren dated May 7, 1914.
[2] According to Edward Perry Warren’s records. J. D. Beazley calls the statuette as "the Marotti Herakles" in Edward Perry Warren: The Biography of a Connoisseur (1941), p. 350.
Additional information:
In 1903, the statue was lent to the Burlington Fine Arts Club by Edward Perry Warren (Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art (1904), p. 13, no. 12).
First half of the 6th century CE
about A.D. 150
about A.D. 100
about A.D. 98–117
About A.D. 125–145
about A.D. 140-150
about A.D. 180
A.D. 220–240
about A.D. 238, reworked from a portrait from the early 2nd century A.D.
Late 2nd century A.D.
about A.D. 110–135