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Description: | inscr on plate b. l. "Hercule se jettant dans un bucher allume / sur le mont oeta/ Grave sur le tableau du Guide qui est au cabinet du Roy / , de 8 pieds de haut, et de 6 pieds de large."; inscr on plate b. r. "Hercules in monte oeta sese in rogum / conjiciens / Aeri incisus ex tabula Guidi asseruata in Pinacotheca Regia / 8. pedes alta, et 6. pedes lata." AFTER RENI, Guido; (Italian; 1575-1642) CRE ROUSSELET, Gilles; (French; 1610-1686) From a series of 4 prints depicting Hercules' Labours and the series of events that led to th death and apotheosis of the hero . After a painting then in the French king collection, now in the Louvre, Paris. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | MYTHOLOGY : FUNERAL PYRE : HERCULES : LABOUR : NUDE : MUSCLE : FIRE : ESSEX : VOLUME : SMOKE : METARMOPHOSIS : DEATH OF HERCULES : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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