Gladiator and Defeated Slave
by TILGNER, Victor Oskar, Patinated and gilt plaster, height 99 cm
This plaster group is clearly inspired by one of Jean-L�on G�r�me’s paintings, his Pollice Verso of 1872, in which a triumphant Gladiator treads his sandal into the neck of his defeated opponent, his sword held outstretched, whilst he turns towards the crowd for bloodthirsty instruction (Phoenix Art Museum).