Hercules and Antaeus

c. 1500

Cristofano Robetta

Artist, Italian, 1462 - 1535 or after

Cristofano Robetta, after Antonio del Pollaiuolo

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Arcana Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 26.7 x 19.9 cm (10 1/2 x 7 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1997.59.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 1, p.207, no. 35, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Hans Freiherr von und zu Aufsess [1801-1872], Nuremberg (Lugt 2749); Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Maihingen; (Artemis Fine Art, New York); purchased, with funds from the Arcana Foundation, by NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2002

  • Battle of the Nudes: Pollaiulolo's Renaissance Masterpeice, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2002, no. 11.

2018

  • Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, cat. by Jamie Gabbarelli, NGA, 2018, no.

Bibliography

1938

  • Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.

Watermarks

High crown

Wikidata ID

Q75404978

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