Hercules overwint de Tweedracht en de Nijd, Christoffel Jegher, after Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1635

Title(s)

Hercules overwint de Tweedracht en de Nijd

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-39.797

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 15-1(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Artist

• print maker: Christoffel Jegher (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Peter Paul Rubens (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Peter Paul Rubens (mentioned on object)
• unknown (mentioned on object)

Place

Southern Netherlands

Dating

c. 1635

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 612 mm × width 371 mm

What

• Hercules as personification of some other abstract notion
• Disagreement, Discord; 'Discordia' (Ripa)
• Envy; 'Invidia' (Ripa) ~ personification of one of the Seven Deadly Sins
• Jealousy; 'Gelosia', 'Rammarico del ben'altrui' (Ripa)

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• Heer - Kuyl, p. 187, cat.nr. 15 I
• H. Leeflang, De kunst van de houtsnede, Even zeldzaam als onovertroffen, in: Kunstschrift 3 (2009), p. 40, afb. 43 (als Hercules overwint de Nijd).