Hercules en de merries van Diomedes, Antonio Tempesta, 1608

Title(s)

Hercules en de merries van Diomedes
De twaalf werken van Hercules (series title)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-H-G-156-1

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 795
• Bartsch 788-799

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’

Description

Hercules vangt de wilde, mensenvleesetende, merries van Diomedes. Het dode lichaam van Diomedes ligt op de grond en wordt opgegeten door een merrie.

Artist

• print maker: Antonio Tempesta
• after own design by: Antonio Tempesta
• publisher: Nicolaus van Aelst
• Francesco Maria Bourbon del Monte Sante Maria
• Nicolaus van Aelst

Place

Rome

Dating

1608

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 99 mm × width 142 mm

What

• most important deeds of Hercules: the Twelve Labours
• (8) the four mares of King Diomedes are captured; when Diomedes is slain in the ensuing battle his body is thrown to the mares to eat

Credit line

• On loan from the City of Amsterdam

Acquisition

loan 1957

Copyright

Public domain

• Italian masters of the sixteenth century : Antonio Tempesta, p. 93, cat.nr. 795
• Le peintre graveur, dl. 18, p. 151, cat.nr. 788-799