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Hercules Slaying Envy

A work made of woodcut on ivory paper.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of woodcut on ivory paper.

Date:

1633/34

Artist:

Christoffel Jegher (Flemish, 1596-1652/53)
after Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577-1640)

About this artwork

Peter Paul Rubens, like Rembrandt van Rijn, realized printmaking’s enormous potential. Rubens was more concerned with disseminating his style and reproducing his painted compositions than with creating original subjects in print. While several artists engraved Rubens’s paintings, only one, Christoffel Jegher, cut the nine surviving woodcuts based on his work. Both Jegher’s and Rubens’s names appear, with the privilege (an early form of copyright), at the lower right of the dramatic Hercules Slaying Envy. This composition relates to a painting that Rubens was completing at the time for James I of England; its scale and broad cutting admirably reflect the artist’s florid painting style.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Christoffel Jegher

Title

Hercules Slaying Envy

Place

Germany (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1633–1634

Medium

Woodcut on ivory paper

Dimensions

Image/block/sheet: 60.2 × 36.2 cm (23 3/4 × 14 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Prints and Drawings Purchase Fund

Reference Number

1955.1035

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