Hercules and Antaeus

Giovanni Pietro Possenti

Artist, Italian, 1618 - 1659

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with plate tone on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19 × 12.9 cm (7 1/2 × 5 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 19.2 × 13 cm (7 9/16 × 5 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.92.586

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 6, State only (under Pecham/Possenti, section B)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York, as Georg Pecham); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased April 1, 1977; Gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821: 3, only (under Master CpP)

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868: 6, only (under Pecham, section B)

Inscriptions

in image, at bottom left: CpP

Wikidata ID

Q76557248

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