Bernard Picart, Cornelis Bloemaert, and others
Hercules’s Combat with the Hydra
1730
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- Artist: Bernard Picart
- Artist: Cornelis Bloemaert
- Artist: Theodor Matham
- Artist: Abraham Jansz. van Diepenbeeck
- Publisher: Zacharias Châtelain
Hercules’s Combat with the Hydra
1730
Physical Qualities
Etching and engraving, Sheet: 457 x 286 mm. (18 x 11 1/4 in.)
Image: 352 x 250 mm. (13 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1946.112.13003
This publication is based on Michel de Marolles' "Tableau du Temple des Muses" (Paris, 1655), with fifty-nine engraving by Cornelis Bloemaert (and Theodor Matham etching the backgrounds) and one (showing Salmacis) by Poilly; after drawings by Abraham van Diepenbeeck and Pierre Brebiette illustrating the art collection of Jacques Favereau (1590-1675).
It has the same decorated frame as 1946.112.13035.
BMA, Jacobs Wing rotation, August 15, 2007- January 29, 2008
Signed: 2
Inscribed: recto: in plate, lower center: "COMBAT D'HERCULE CONTRE L'HYDRE DE LERNE. / Hercules's Combat with the Hydra. / Streit des Hercules, wieder die Lernische Schlange / Strydt van hercules, tegens de Slange van Lerna."; in plate, at bottom left: "B. Picart del. 1731."; at bottom right of sheet, in graphite: "28"
