Hercules Slaying the Hydra, c. 1618

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with brown wash

Dimensions

sheet: 27.3 x 19.2 cm (10 3/4 x 7 9/16 in.)
mount: 39.5 x 30.9 cm (15 9/16 x 12 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of David Edward Rust

Accession Number

2012.88.1

Artists / Makers

Guercino (artist) Bolognese, 1591 - 1666

Image Use

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Inscription

by seventeenth-century hand, lower left corner, pen and brown ink, Guerchin; by later hand, verso upper right, graphite: 40 [underlined]; center left, 4186/ I

Marks and Labels

collector stamps: black circle with letters or figure inside [illegible]; Henri Joachim Delacroix, Paris 1873-1937 (L. 3604)

Provenance

Henri Joachim Delacroix (1873-1937), Paris. David Rust; gift to NGA 2012.

Associated Names

Rust, David E.

Exhibition History

1965: Art in Italy, 1600-1700. The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965, no. 104 (repr.)(entry by Frederick Cummings).

1969: Il Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1591-1666). Palazzo dell'Archiginnasio, Bologna. no. 29 (repr.)(Denis Mahon).

1982: Bolognese Drawings in North American Collections, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1982, no. 50 (repr.)(Mimi Cazort and Catherine Johnston).

1991: Guercino, Master Draftsman: Works from North American Collections. Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991, no. 5 (David M. Stone).

Bibliography

1965: Hibbard, Howard, and Milton Lewine. "Seicento at Detroit." The Burlington Magazine 107, no. 748 (July 1965): 371, no 104.

1965: Mahon, Denis. "Stock-taking in Seicento Studies." Apollo 82, no. 45 (November 1965): 385 (fig. 9), 386, 391 note 30.

2012: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. "Guercino, Hercules Slaying the Hydra." National Gallery of Art Bulletin no. 47 (Fall 2012): 17-18, color repro.