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The Triumphant Hercules with the Vanquished Hydra

A work made of pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on buff laid paper, ruled in pen and brown ink, laid down on paperboard.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on buff laid paper, ruled in pen and brown ink, laid down on paperboard.

Date:

c. 1618

Artist:

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino
Italian, 1591-1666

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Guercino

Title

The Triumphant Hercules with the Vanquished Hydra

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1618

Medium

Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on buff laid paper, ruled in pen and brown ink, laid down on paperboard

Inscriptions

No inscriptions

Dimensions

Primary support: 22.3 × 12.8 cm (8 13/16 × 5 1/16 in.); Secondary support: 22.2 × 13 cm (8 3/4 × 5 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray

Reference Number

2019.879

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