Hercules en Cacus

1588 · Print

May one see it?

Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.

Source: The museum's own collection data

On the map Museum page

About the work

In the museum's own words — in Dutch

Hercules heft een grote knots op om Cacus, op de grond liggend in zijn grot, te slaan. Op de achterzijde van deze prent een afdruk van alleen het toonblok.

Rijksmuseum

Particulars

Accession number: RP-P-1878-A-933(R)

What it shows

Cacus, the fire-breathing monster is killed in his cave by Hercules

In the catalog

Prints Renaissance 16th century

Sources

Rijksmuseum: the museum's own open data · fetched 7 days ago
Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain

Meanwhile, in the life of Hendrick Goltzius

The whole life

1579–1587
Pupil: Jan Saenredam
late 1580s
Depression and consumption
From the late 1580s he suffered from depression and consumption; his family life was unhappy.
1585–1587
Pupil: Jacob de Gheyn II
1587
Founding of the Haarlem Academy
Together with Cornelis van Haarlem and Karel van Mander he founded an academy of art in Haarlem, later known as the Haarlem Mannerist Academy (some sources give 1583 or 1600). There, for the first time in the Netherlands, systematic study of anatomy and drawing from the nude model were introduced.
1590
Departure for Italy
He fled from his wife and, despite his illnesses, set out for Italy — via Hamburg and Munich to Venice, Bologna and Florence. Part of the way he traveled on foot, passing himself off as a commoner, "partly out of a love of mystification."