Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875)

THÉSÉE ET LE MINOTAURE (THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR)

Barye based the figure of Theseus on a drawing by Henry Fuseli of an executioner which was taken in turn from a fresco of the Beheading of John the Baptist by Andrea del Sarto in the Monastero dello Scalzo, Florence. Further inspiration comes from a sheet of drawings of boxers by Géricault. 

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