Allegory of the Labours of Hercules

Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (1596 - 1669)

Fitzwilliam Museum

1650

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.

• Medium: pen, ink & wash over black lead
• Dimensions: 23 x 36 cm
• Art Fund Grant: £3576 ( Total: £35,760; Export stopped)
• ArtFunded in: 1992
• Vendor: Christie's

Provenance

1st Earl of Leicester; by descent; Christie's 2/7/91, lot 49; Mr Eric Scheinberg, New York.

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