ÉMILE-ANTOINE BOURDELLE IN THE MUSÉE-D'ORSAY








Hercules the Archer Killing the Stymphalian Birds
gilded bronze, 2nd version, 1923; dated 1909

See another version of this sculpture, outside and ungilded.
 

Hercules' Sixth Labor

Hercules was required to destroy a huge flock of man-eating birds at a lake near the town of Stymphalos. After Hercules was aided by Athena who gave him a pair of clappers to scare the birds from their hiding place, he was able to pick them off with his bow and poison-tipped arrows.
 
 

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