Medallion with Hercules and Antaeus

1573 (Renaissance)

30.5 cm 37.5 cm

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The exploits of the ancient hero Hercules were valued as exemplifying great physical strength and virtuous purpose combined with the occasional human failing. They were popular at the French court, because the royal family claimed the hero as an ancestor. Of Hercules's Twelve...

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Léon Decloux [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Paris, April 27-8, 1891; Dr. Emile Allain, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Seligmann Brothers, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, May 16, 1906, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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