Offered by Galerie Golovanoff
"Mercury drawing to kill the giant Arcos" Important Biscuit figure from the Royal Copenhagen Manufacture
Largest and rare version, produced in 1882, based on N. G. Henriksen's reduction of the original marble statue sculpted by Bertil Thorvaldsen in Rome in 1818.
Ref. Catalog "Biscuit efter Thorvaldsen", Bredo Grandjean Museum Thorvaldsen, 1978.