Standing man, the Lansdowne Herakles

Copy in plaster acquired in 1897 and cast on an original, roman sculpture made in the style of the Greek, Late Classical sculpture Lysippos, found in Emperor Hadrian’s villa outside Rome in 1790. It was purchased by the 1.st Marquess of Landsdowne, who negotiated the peace with the Americans during the War of Independence. It is now on American hands, at The Getty Villa, Malibu, California.

A plaster cast in the Royal Cast Collection of SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark, scanned in 3D. SMK publishes the scan with the Public Domain Mark: no known copyright. SMK does not endorse ModelsXi.

Danish title: Stående mand, Herakles Lansdowne.