Hercules is seated at the centre of the rectangular picture and is surrounded by Omphale and her servants. While the hero looks to the right, one of the women has already started placing a white cloth over his head like a bonnet, another woman guides his right hand to her
Hercules is seated at the centre of the rectangular picture and is surrounded by Omphale and her servants. While the hero looks to the right, one of the women has already started placing a white cloth over his head like a bonnet, another woman guides his right hand to her decollete. Hercules holds the distaff in his left hand. Above his head two dead partridges hang like a still-life on the wall.
[Daniel Görres, cda 2018]
- Attribution
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
Attribution
| Lucas Cranach the Elder | [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 272] |
- Production date
- 1532
Production date
| 1532 | [dated] |
- Dimensions
- Dimensions of support: 82.5 x 122.5 cm
Dimensions
Dimensions of support: 82.5 x 122.5 cm
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 272]
- Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia at the top centre: winged serpent
Signature / Dating
Artist's insignia at the top centre: winged serpent
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 272]
- Inscriptions and Labels
Top centre: 'Herculeis manibus dant Lydae pensa puella
Imperium dominae fert deus ille suae
Sic eciam ingentes animos insana …Inscriptions and Labels
Inscriptions, Badges:
Top centre:
'Herculeis manibus dant Lydae pensa puella
Imperium dominae fert deus ille suae
Sic eciam ingentes animos insana voluptas
Et domino mollis pectore frangit amor.'
[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 272]
- Owner
- Private Collection
- Repository
- Private Collection
- CDA ID
- PRIVATE_NONE-P203
- FR (1978) Nr.
- FR272
- Persistent Link
- https://lucascranach.org/en/PRIVATE_NONE-P203/