Bourdelle: Hannibal’s First Victory

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by Henk Bekker

Bourdelle: Hannibal's First Victory in the garden of the Musée Bourdelle in Paris Montparnasse

Hannibal’s First Victory / Première Victoire d’Hannibal — an early work (1885) showing a nude boy with a large eagle. It illustrated an act of cruelty famous from the Gustav Faubert novel Salammmbô. As a boy, the later Carthaginian General brutally killed an eagle.

in the Musée Bourdelle in Paris Montparnasse