The panel depicts an episode from the legend of Hercules, in which Hercules must serve as a slave at the court of Queen Omphale. Hercules is seated in the centre of the composition, wearing a fur-skin and holding spun thread in his hands. He is flanked by two women, probably
The panel depicts an episode from the legend of Hercules, in which Hercules must serve as a slave at the court of Queen Omphale. Hercules is seated in the centre of the composition, wearing a fur-skin and holding spun thread in his hands. He is flanked by two women, probably Omphale's servants, one holds a distaff and looks out at the viewer, while the other places a white cloth on Hercules' head like a bonnet. Four partridges hang on the wall in the background.
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attribution
| Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 124, No. 273] |
- Production date
- 1532
Production date
| 1532 | [dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 79 x 116 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 79 x 116 cm
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, 124, no. 273]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia upper edge under inscription: Serpent (with elevated wings) and dated '1532'
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia upper edge under inscription: Serpent (with elevated wings) and dated '1532'
- Inscriptions and Labels
Latin inscription upper edge: 'HERCVLEIS MANIBVS DANT LYDAE PENSA PVELLAE / IMPERIVM DOMINAE FERT DEVS ILLE SVAE / SIC …
Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
Latin inscription upper edge:
'HERCVLEIS MANIBVS DANT LYDAE PENSA PVELLAE / IMPERIVM DOMINAE FERT DEVS ILLE SVAE / SIC ECIAM IGENTES ANIMOS INSANA VOLVPTAS / ET DOMITO MOLLIS PECTORE FRANGIT AMOR'
- Owner
- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
- Repository
- painting not preserved
- CDA ID
- DE_USG-Lost_39
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR273
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/DE_USG-Lost_39/