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Hercules the Archer by Antoine Bourdelle, 1909
Metropolitan Museum of Art · wikidata.org
This is Hercules mid-shot at some monstrous man-eating birds, one of his mythical labours, though you'd never guess it without being told — no birds or arrows in sight. They say the model was a soldier friend who didn't want to be recognizable, so his face got smoothed out in later casts. He was killed at Verdun a few years after posing.