VRIES, Adriaen de
(b. ca. 1556, The Hague, d. 1626, Prague)

Hercules Fountain (detail)

1596-1602
Bronze
Maximilianstrasse, Augsburg

The nude young woman washing her feet in a basin, surrounded by a group of swans and children, is one of the three beautiful female figures modelled by the artist for this monument, which turned a local marketplace into a dwelling place of gods.




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