Hercules Killing Cacus

1588

Hendrik Goltzius

Associated Names
Hendrick Goltzius

Artist, Dutch, 1558 - 1617

This is a print of two nude men in a cave. One man is standing over another fallen man, raising a long club behind his head with both arms, as if ready to strike. The man on the ground is reaching upward with one hand and extending one of his legs upward. The standing man appears to be wearing a ragged lion-skin cloak, and both men have highly defined muscles. The background is chaotic and filled with other people and animals.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chiaroscuro woodcut in two shades of sepia and black on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 41.8 × 34 cm (16 7/16 × 13 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.4634

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein 1996, no. 304, State i(j)/iii

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1988

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.

Bibliography

1921

  • Hirschmann, Otto. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks von Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) mit Benutzung der durch E.W. Moest hinterlassenen Notizen zusammengestellt. Leipzig: Verlag von Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1921. Reprint. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt &Bie

1993

  • The New Hollstein Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts, 1450-1700. Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-: no. 304, i(j)/iii.

Wikidata ID

Q64957579

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