Minneapolis Institute of Art
Hercules, from Collection de figures théâtrales
Jean-Baptiste Martin II
- Date
- c. 1760
- Medium
- Engraving, contemporary color and gilding
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
If you were going to put on a skit at the court of King Louis XV, you couldn’t settle for loin cloths and lion skins. You needed to be fully upholstered; at least Jean-Baptiste Martin thought so. Perhaps his view was shaded by the fact that his father had been the director of Gobelins, the French royal factory for the manufacture of tapestries. France, Europe
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