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Hercules

Hercules, Hieronymus Wierix, 1578

HHieronymus WierixFlemish, 1553–1619

Hercules

1578 · Print

May one see it?

Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel

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

Landschap met Hercules. In zijn hand houdt hij de hoofden van koning Diomedes en de veedief Cacus, op zijn knots prijkt het hoofd van de reus Geryon. Met zijn voet staat hij op de meerkoppige hydra van Lerna, het door hem verslagen watermonster. In de marge een tweeregelig onderschrift uit het boek van Ovidius in het Latijn en in het Nederlands.

Rijksmuseum

Particulars

1578 · aged 25

15531619

Accession number: RP-P-1906-1796

What it shows

Diomedes - death Cacus, the fire-breathing monster is killed in his cave by Hercules (+ variant)The monster Geryon - death (2) the Hydra of Lerna is killed by Hercules Violent death by beheading

In the catalog

Prints Renaissance 16th century

Sources

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

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