Lot 126: 17th Century Striding figure of Hercules

in strong dynamic pose standing on a grassy socle, the body with powerful musculature, the right foot gracefully turned forward, the left hand upheld, the right stretched out to the side, the loincloth fashioned from lion’s skin, with deep-carved folds, by the hand of the sculptor David Heschler (1611-1667), full-round carved fruitwood, 27 cm high, probably from Ulm c. 1640, (Er)