Hercules Relieving Atlas of the Globe

c. 1530

Lucas Cranach the Elder

Artist, German, 1472 - 1553

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink over brush and gray wash over chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 13.8 x 20.5 cm (5 7/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.111.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

J. Fairfax-Murray. Victor Koch (his sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 8 February 1923, no. 70). (sale, Sotheby's New York, 29 January 1997, no. 128, as "German School, 16th century); Private collection, Washington, DC; (Salamander Fine Arts, New York); purchased 2006 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 10.

2010

  • Die Welt des Lucas Cranach. Ein Künstler im Zeitalter von Dürer, Tizian und Metsys, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 2010, no. 119 (Guido Messling; catalogue also printed in French and Flemish).

2018

  • Dürer e il Rinascimento Tedesco, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2018.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower left in graphite: Lucas Cranach

Wikidata ID

Q64594066

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