Hercules sits at the centre of this vertical format painting, flanked by Omphale's servants. While the hero looks to the right, the servants have already begun to place a white cloth like a bonnet on his head. He holds a spun thread in his hands, one of the servants holds
Hercules sits at the centre of this vertical format painting, flanked by Omphale's servants. While the hero looks to the right, the servants have already begun to place a white cloth like a bonnet on his head. He holds a spun thread in his hands, one of the servants holds the distaff. The two partridges hanging in each of the upper corners have every appearance of a still-life.
[Görres, cda 2014]
- Attributions
-
Lucas Cranach the Elder
Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attributions
| Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, No. 274A] |
| Workshop Lucas Cranach the Elder | [page of the Auc. Cat. Sotheby's New York in the Archive D. Koepplin, 2008] |
- Production date
- 1531
Production date
| 1531 | [dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 81 x 118 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 81 x 118 cm
[Max J. Friedländer Archive]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia and date at the top: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing right and dated '1531'
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia and date at the top: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing right and dated '1531'
[cda 2014]
- Inscriptions and Labels
- at the top edge: 'HERCVLEIS MANIBVS DANT LIDAE PENSA PVELLAE
IMPERIVM DOMINAE FERT DEVS ILLE SVAE
SIC ETIAM INGENTES …Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
- at the top edge:
'HERCVLEIS MANIBVS DANT LIDAE PENSA PVELLAE
IMPERIVM DOMINAE FERT DEVS ILLE SVAE
SIC ETIAM INGENTES ANIMOS INSANA VOLVPTAS
ET DOMITO MOLLIS PECTORE FRANGIT AMOR'
[cda 2014]
- Owner
- Private Collection
- Repository
- Private Collection
- CDA ID
- PRIVATE_NONE-P023
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR274A
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P023/
- at the top edge: 'HERCVLEIS MANIBVS DANT LIDAE PENSA PVELLAE
