Hercules Slaying Envy

Prints and Drawings

1633/34

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

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.

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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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Schneevoogt Sujets de la Fable 68 I/II

Hollstein vol. IX, 15 I

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