Hercules Raising his Club: Study for “Hercules and Cacus”

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Hercules Raising his Club: Study for “Hercules and Cacus”

François LemoyneLinkedCulture matchlcp-ee23abb25e19

Date
1717
Medium
Black chalk, with white chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on laid paper
Culture
France
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
248310

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Using only black chalk heightened with white to convey flesh tones, François Lemoyne convincingly depicted the hero Hercules in full swing, fully embodied and activated, and positioned surprisingly like a baseball player at bat. One of two known studies for the figure in Lemoyne’s painting Hercules Clubbing Cacus, this sheet powerfully conveys the artist’s graphic skill. The painting illustrates the 10th labor of Hercules, in which the hero was commanded to bring the monster Geryon’s cattle back to Rome. After discovering that the giant Cacus stole several of the cattle, Hercules clubs him to death.

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Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
Provenance
Jules Alexandre Duval Le Camus (1814–1878), Paris [stamp (L.1441) recto, lower right, in black]. Christian and Isabelle Adrien, Paris, from 1970; sold, Sotheby’s, Paris, Mar. 22, 2018, lot 43, through François Borne to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.

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AAT300033973

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