Circle of Laurent Delvaux (1696-1778)

New York, Carlton Hobbs LLC, Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, Important European Terracottas, 2018

L. Lock, (entry in) Important European Terracottas, exh. cat. Tomasso Brothers Fine Art, London, 2018, pp. 72-77, no. 14

This vigorously modelled figure shows a compositional and stylistic affinity with the monumental statue of Hercules with the Erymanthian Boar (circa 1768-1770) by the prominent Flemish court sculptor, Laurent Delvaux. Perhaps inspired by Delvaux's marble, which is housed in the Prince's Palace in Brussels, the present terracotta is likely to have served as a model for a larger statue in marble.