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Herakles

sculpture by Bourdelle

Also known as: “Hercules Archer”

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In Antoine Bourdelle
…triumph in the Salon with Herakles (also called Hercules Archer), which again owes much to Archaic art, although the pose is far more sinuous and the musculature more exaggerated; he made several sculptures of this subject. Also in 1910 he created the full-length portrait Rodin at Work, the head of…
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