Hercules, from Collection de figures théâtrales
- Medium
- Engraving, contemporary color and gilding
- Dimensions
- 9 3/8 x 6 3/4 in. (23.81 x 17.15 cm) (plate)
- Genre
Tags
france
About
If you were going to put on a skit at the court of King Louis XV, you couldn’t settle for loin cloths and lion skins. You needed to be fully upholstered; at least Jean-Baptiste Martin thought so. Perhaps his view was shaded by the fact that his father had been the director of Gobelins, the French royal factory for the manufacture of tapestries.
