The Farnese Hercules
1562
Engraver, Netherlandish, 1549 - 1580
Publisher, Italian, 1512 - 1577
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 44.5 × 30.3 cm (17 1/2 × 11 15/16 in.)
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Accession
2012.46.1.34
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Catalogue Raisonné
Rubach, no. 319, state i/iv
Associated Artworks
See all 57 artworksThe Statue of Pasquino
Italian 16th Century
1544
The Statue of Mars, called 'Pyrrhus'
Jacob Bos, Antonio Salamanca
1562
Pantheum Romanum [The Roman Pantheon]
Italian 16th Century, Antonio Lafreri, Nicolas Beatrizet
1549
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Weingarten Monastery, Swabia, 1632 (title page inscription in the NGA "Speculum"). Cistercian Abbey of Notre-Dame du Val-Dieu, Belgium (bookplate: Ex libris Vallis Dei). English export license recording the sale of this volume in 1974 by E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Ltd., London; Daniel Donahue, Santa Barbara, CA; (Liber Antiquus, Washington, D.C.); purchased 2012 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1921
Huelsen, Christian. "Das Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae des Antonio Lafreri." Collectanea variae doctrinae Leoni Olschki. Munich: 1921: no. 55.
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam, 1954-1868: III.150.15.
2016
Rubach, Birte. Ant. Lafreri Formis Romae: Der Verleger Antonio Lafreri und seine Druckgraphikproduktion. Berlin, 2016.
Inscriptions
Lettered LR, in Greek: "Glykon Athenaios epoiei"
Lettered LR: "Iacobus Bossius Belga incidit"
Lettered LC: "Omnium elegantissimum Herculis signum Gliconis Atheniensis peritissimi artificis manu fabre factum ... Ant. Lafrerius Sequanus aeneis formis diligenter expressit Anno MDLXII"
Wikidata ID
Q77259627