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Hercules Killing Cacus

Hendrick Goltzius

Hercules Killing Cacus

1899-1969

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Hendrick Goltzius

Hercules Killing Cacus

1899-1969

Physical Qualities Chiaroscuro woodcut, Image: 406 x 330 mm. (16 x 13 in.)
Credit Line Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number 1970.40
Copy (printed from 3 matrices on antique laid paper) after Goltzius's color woodcut (chiaroscuro woodcut) of "Hercules and Cacus" from 1588

Signed: 3

Inscribed: Recto: in block, at left center: "A° 88 H Goltzius Inue"; in block, at lower center: "t'Amsterdam by Willem Janssen in de vergulde Sonnewyser"

Artist

Hendrick Goltzius

1557–1616

Dutch, 1558-1617
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