R8836: Hercules Killing Hydra
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- R8836
- People
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Gilles Rousselet, French (1610 - 1686)
After Guido Reni, Italian (Bologna 1575 - 1642 Bologna)
- Title
- Hercules Killing Hydra
- Other Titles
- Original Language Title: Hercule tuant l'Hydre
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 18th century
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/241882
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Engraving
- Dimensions
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Image: 38.7 × 28.5 cm (15 1/4 × 11 1/4 in.)
Plate: 43 × 29.6 cm (16 15/16 × 11 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 43.8 × 30.6 cm (17 1/4 × 12 1/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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John Witt Randall, bequest to his sister.
Belinda Lull Randall, gift to Harvard University, 1892. sister of John Witt Randall
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- Standard Reference Number
- Le Bl. 53
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
- Object Number
- R8836
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- A Kingdom of Images: French Prints in the Age of Louis XIV, 1660-1715, checklist, Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, 2015), pp. 162-163, repr. as cat. 50 [not Harvard impression, related bibliography]
Verification Level
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