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Hercules and the Hydra of Lerna

A work made of pen and brown and black ink and graphite, with touches of brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, discolored, on cream laid paper prepared with a pale brown wash, tipped on blue laid paper, laid down on cream board.
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  • A work made of pen and brown and black ink and graphite, with touches of brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, discolored, on cream laid paper prepared with a pale brown wash, tipped on blue laid paper, laid down on cream board.

Date:

c. 1876

Artist:

Gustave Moreau
French, 1826-1898

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Gustave Moreau

Title

Hercules and the Hydra of Lerna

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1866–1898

Medium

Pen and brown and black ink and graphite, with touches of brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, discolored, on cream laid paper prepared with a pale brown wash, tipped on blue laid paper, laid down on cream board

Inscriptions

Inscribed lower left: "l'hydra"

Dimensions

18.3 × 15.8 cm (7 1/4 × 6 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation

Reference Number

1983.281

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