# Gladiator and Defeated Slave

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## Artwork

- Artist: [TILGNER, Victor Oskar](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tilgner-victor-oskar-r088a4bf8596b86>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Patinated and gilt plaster, height 99 cm

## Commentary

This plaster group is clearly inspired by one of Jean-Léon Gérôme&#39;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 \(Phoenix Art Museum\).

## Related artworks

- [Mozart Monument](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tilgner-victor-oskar-r088a4bf8596b86/mozart-monument-r6e970d491c5498>)

## Attribution

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