Hercules with Omphale

Hercules with Omphale

Title

Hercules with Omphale

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 272]

Painting on canvas

Medium

Painting on canvas

[Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 272]

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/

Provenance

  • 1931 Berlin, Matthiesen Gallery
  • formerly Stockholm, Collection Osborn Kling
  • auction Sotheby's, 24 March 1965, lot 43
  • 1966, Munich, Xaver Schweidwimmer
    [Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979, no. 272]

Literature

Reference on page Catalogue Number Figure / Plate
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 272
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
EditorG. Schwartz
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBasel, Boston, Stuttgart
Year of Publication1979
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Schade 1974
AuthorWerner Schade
TitleDie Malerfamilie Cranach
Place of PublicationDresden
Year of Publication1974
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/schade1974
Show Literature
Friedländer, Rosenberg 1932 223
AuthorMax J. Friedländer, Jakob Rosenberg
TitleDie Gemälde von Lucas Cranach
Place of PublicationBerlin
Year of Publication1932
Link http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/friedlaender1932
Show Literature
  • Hercules with Omphale, 1532

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