Hercules gooit Lichas in zee, Antonio Tempesta, 1606

Title(s)

Hercules gooit Lichas in zee
Lernaei muneris gerulum in Euboicum mare praecipitat Hercules (title on object)
Metamorphoseon sive transformationum (series title)
Metamorfosen van Ovidius (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

84/150

Object number

RP-P-OB-37.858

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 721
• Bartsch 638-787

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Hercules, furieus van woede, gooit Lichas in zee. Op de achtergrond het brandende lichaam van Deïanira. Titel in het Latijn in ondermarge.

Artist

• printmaker: Antonio Tempesta
• publisher: Pieter de Jode (I)

Place

printmaker: Italy
publisher: Antwerp

Dating

1606

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 104 mm × width 117 mm

What

• Hercules, raging with pain, hurls Lichas into the sea

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Italian masters of the sixteenth century, Sebastian Buffa, dl. 36, p. 51, cat.nr. 721
• Le peintre graveur: [vol. 17: peintres ou dessinateurs italiens : maîtres du seizième siècle, 2], Adam von, 1757-1821 Bartsch, dl. 17, p. 151, cat.nr. 638-787