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Hercules Seated, study for Hercules and Omphale
François LemoyneLinkedCulture matchlcp-ee23abb25e19
- Date
- 1724
- Medium
- Red, black, and white chalk, with stumping, on light brown laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 151446
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Carefully distributed across a tan sheet of paper, these studies of a male nude for the figure of Hercules were made in preparation for François Lemoyne’s masterpiece, Hercules and Omphale , painted in Rome in 1724. In the myth illustrated by the work, the Classical hero is reluctantly forced by Omphale to submit to spinning wool like a woman. Interweaving the red, black, and white chalks made famous by Antoine Watteau in the prior decade, this drawing heralds the grace and beauty of the French Rococo while reflecting the powerful experience of Michelangelo’s Sistine Ignudi .
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- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- Max Hevesi, Vienna. Sold, Christie’s, New York, Jan. 30, 1998, lot 237, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA., given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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