Hercules and the Hydra of Lerna

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Hercules and the Hydra of Lerna

Gustave MoreauLinkedCulture matchlcp-467bb7f8de6f

Date
c. 1876
Medium
Pen and brown and black ink and graphite, with touches of brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, discolored, on cream laid paper prepared with a pale brown wash, tipped on blue laid paper, laid down on cream board
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
100264

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Credit line
Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
Provenance
Gustave Duruflé (1834–1909), Paris [invoice and Mathieu 1976]. Georges Wildenstein (1892–1963), Paris; confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (E.R.R.), before January 15, 1943 [January 15, 1943 is the date the drawing was entered into the E.R.R.’s records at the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris; see ERR card W162]; recovered by the American Forces’ Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Service (M.F.A.A.) and processed at the Munich Central Art Collecting Point, June 27, 1945 [Central Collecting Point card]; repatriated to France, October 10, 1946 and restituted to Georges Wildenstein (date unknown) [Central Collecting Point card; Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg: Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de Paume (on-line)]; by descent to his son, Daniel Wildenstein (1917–2001), 1963–at least 1976 [Mathieu, 1976]. Sold by Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1983.

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AAT300033973

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