print
- Museum number
- 1853,1008.215
- Title
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Object: Hercule entre le vice at la vertu
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Series: Musée Royal
- Description
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Hercules between Vice and Virtue; allegorical scene with Hercules standing at centre with a club over his shoulder; Vice at right with Voluptas as a young woman and Envy as an old woman; Virtue at left with a young woman (Temperance) holding a book and horse reins lying next to her; a female genius (Guidance) standing behind Hercules and holding a torch; all figures half-length; after Gérard de Lairesse. c.1803-1810
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1803-1810 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 290 millimetres
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Width: 387 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From 'Musée Royal', see 1853,1008.115 for comment on series. After the painting in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv.no.1422.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1853
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1853,1008.215