Hercules and Antaeus, c. 1500

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 26.7 x 19.9 cm (10 1/2 x 7 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Arcana Foundation

Catalogue Raisonné

Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 1, p.207, no. 35, State only

Accession Number

1997.59.1

Artists / Makers

Cristofano Robetta (artist) Italian, 1462 - 1535 or after

Antonio del Pollaiuolo (artist after) Italian, c. 1431 - 1498

Image Use

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Provenance

Hans Freiherr von und zu Aufsess [1801-1872], Nuremberg (Lugt 2749); Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Maihingen; (Artemis Fine Art, New York); purchased, with funds from the Arcana Foundation, by NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.
Aufsess, Hans Freiherr von und zu
Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection

Exhibition History

2002: Battle of the Nudes: Pollaiulolo's Renaissance Masterpeice, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2002, no. 11.

2018: Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, cat. by Jamie Gabbarelli, NGA, 2018, no.

Bibliography

1938: Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.