Title(s)

Hercules en Omphale

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-2004-72-84

Catalogue reference

• Nagler/Meyer

Description

Tekst in het Latijn in de ondermarge. Prent maakt deel uit van een album.

Artist

• print maker: Pietro Bettelini (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Annibale Carracci (mentioned on object)

Dating

1773 - 1804

Material

• paper

Technique

engraving

Measurements

height 350 mm × width 257 mm

What

• Hercules in love with Omphale; the hero is set to spin wool or to do other women's work among the servants, while Omphale wears his lion's skin and wields his club and bow

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the F.G. Waller-Fonds

Acquisition

purchase 2004

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Album met voorstellingen van en door kunstenaars genoemd in het lexicon 'Pilkington's Dictionary of Painters' (RP-P-2004-72)

• Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, Julius Meyer, dl. 3, p. 754