Panel with Grotesque Design and Scenes of the Labors of Hercules
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor on off-white paper, lined with white heavy paper and framed by blue color paper colored light brown and black
- Genre
- Ornament
Styles
About
Design for a wall panel with a vertical composition. Episodes from the life of Hercules are interspersed amidst a finely drawn, elaborate display of gardens, urns, nymphs, leafy arbors, pavilions and arabesques. The panel's representations include, from the bottom up: Hercules and Dejanira; Hercules and Antaeus; Hercules and Cerverus; Hercules and the Cretan bull; Hercules and Nemean lion; Hercules carrying the apples of the Hesperides; Hercules killing the Hydra; Hercules and Geryon (?); Hercules as boy with snake; Mercury advising Hercules.