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Auction: 390 - Renaissance Plaquettes and Commemorative Medals featuring the Neil A. Goodman Collection - e-Auction
Lot: 120

ITALY, 16th Century
Hercules Strangling the Nemean Lion. Cast Roundel. Uniface. Bronze, 52mm. Hercules left, strangling the Nemean lion, tree and bowcase behind. Designs copied from Moderno plaquette of the same subject. This is a reduction of a model originally based on a rectangular planchet, the boundary lines of which can still be seen in parts at the peripheries of the top edge.
Old identification and gallery label on back. Some scratches in left field. Pope-Hennessy, "Renaissance Bronzes", cf. 184, Fig 206. Lewis, "The Plaquettes of Moderno and His Followers", cf. III A, 3. Good Very Fine and with an Excellent Provenance. Gorny and Mosch Sale 242, October 13, 2016, lot 4994. Ex Sylvia Adams, Part IV, Bonhams Sale, May 23, 1996, lot 61. Possibly acquired by private treaty from Alfred Spero; Ex Henry Oppenheimer, Christie's, July 27-29, 1936, lot 246 {?}; Ex Heinrich Gottlieb Gutekunst, Leo Hamburger Sale (Frankfurt), December 9, 1902, lot 159 [illustrated].
From the Neil A. Goodman Collection

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