A GLAZED TERRACOTTA GROUP OF HERCULES AND THE NEMEAN LION

A GLAZED TERRACOTTA GROUP OF HERCULES AND THE NEMEAN LION

IN THE MANNER OF GIOVANNI BATTISTA FOGGINI (1652-1725), FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY

with an off-white glaze

23cm high, 18.5cm wide, 16cm deep

Catalogue Note

Giovanni Battista Foggini was the leading sculptor at the court of the Grand Duke of Tuscany during the end of the 17th century. For a related terracotta group of Sleeping Endymion by Agostino Cornacchini and a porcelain example by Carlo Ginori of the Doccia factory see Bruce Boucher, Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova, pp.234-237. figs. 63 & 64.