Reproduction of Herakles Killing the Hydra of Lerna
Emile Gilliéron Swiss
Not on view
This half-size depiction of a small pediment shows the labor of Herakles killing the Hydra, a formidable enemy whose multiple heads grew back as soon as they were lopped off. The sculpture was found on the Acropolis in 1882, but the location of its original structure has not been identified. On the occasion of a visit to Athens in 1883, Russell Sturgis, the eminent American architect and one of the founders of The Met, commissioned Gilliéron to draw this pediment and other recent discoveries on the Acropolis for him; the whereabouts of these works are unknown.
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