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Guillaume Boichot
Seated Herculescirca 1795

Not on view
Bronze sculpture of a seated, heavily muscular nude man with curly hair and beard, gripping cloth at his chest, seated atop a lion skin, on a rectangular plinth
Dark bronze sculpture of a muscular bearded male nude seated on a rocky base draped with a lion skin, leaning forward with one hand holding a small object; a club and circular shield detail visible at the base, with finely modeled surface detail.
Dark bronze sculpture of a muscular bearded male figure seated on a rocky base, leaning forward with arms resting on bent knees, with a lion skin draped across his lap and a serpentine form beneath his feet, finely detailed curly hair and surface modeling.
Dark-patinated bronze sculpture of a seated male nude, turned three-quarter away from the viewer, muscular torso inclined forward, with drapery across the lap and a lion skin beneath the figure on a rectangular base.
Bronze sculpture of a muscular nude male figure seen from behind, seated on a rocky base with a draped cloth, dark patinated surface with finely detailed curly hair and anatomically rendered back musculature, mounted on a rectangular plinth.
Artist or Maker
Guillaume Boichot
France, Paris, 1735-1814
Title
Seated Hercules
Place Made
France, Paris
Date Made
circa 1795
Medium
Bronze, cast by Charles Crozatier
Dimensions
35 × 27 × 16 in. (88.9 × 68.58 × 40.64 cm)
Credit Line
William Randolph Hearst Collection
Accession Number
50.33.27
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
  • Levkoff, Mary L., ed. Hearst the collector. Exh. Cat. New York: Abrams and Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008.

  • Naginski, Erika. Sculpture and enlightenment. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2009.

  • Levkoff, Mary L. "William Randolph Hearst's Gifts of European Sculpture to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art." Sculpture Journal 4 (2000): 160-71.