Bronze Sculpture of Ganymede And The EagleOn a black marble basement.Size: 45 x 45 x 22 cm.Estimate: 300 – 400 euroNOTEAfter the famous marble sculpture by Thorvaldsen (1817)Le, showing Ganymede as a kneeling figure watering the eagle. Ganymede was the son of King Tros (who gave Troy its name) and was the most beautiful of all youths, Ganymede was chosen by the gods as Zeus' cupbearer. Fired with great lust, the father of the gods clothes himself in eagle feathers and hunts out the youth on the Plain of Troy in order to lure him away to Olympus. Ganymede artlessly offers his drinking bowl to this eagle that drops from the sky, and the disguised supreme Olympic god dips his beak into the bowl. As a sign of his origin, the youth wears the Phrygian cap and holds a jug in his right hand. Ganymede was to take the place of Hebe as the taster of the gods, because she spilled the drink – the nectar – that made the gods immortal.“Ganymede en de Adelaar”Bronzen sculpture op een rechthoekige zwart marmeren basement. Afmeting: 45 x 45 x 22 cm.