© Fitzwilliam Museum
Allegory of the Labours of Hercules
Artist: Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (1596 - 1669)
Location: Fitzwilliam Museum
Date: 1650
Materials: pen, ink & wash over black lead
Dimensions: 23 x 36 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £3,576 (Total: £35,760)
Vendor: Christie's
Review number: 3641 (1992)
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Provenance:
1st Earl of Leicester; by descent; Christie's 2/7/91, lot 49; Mr Eric Scheinberg, New York.
Description:
This is an unusual subject and may have been a drawing for a sculpture, perhaps in wax. It is certainly an ambitious drawing of great power.
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