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    "localId": "160083",
    "label": "Footed Vessel with Handle (verso)",
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    "id": "160083",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "Footed Vessel with Handle (verso)",
    "description": "To atone for the crime of killing his family, the Greek hero Hercules was required to perform twelve labors. In this final study for a fresco of this subject commissioned by Cardinal Odoardo Farnese for the ceiling of his study in his family’s Roman palace, Hercules rests, surrounded by evidence of his toil: the head of the Erymanthian boar he captured; the three golden apples of the Hesperides; and the hide of the Nemean lion on which he sits. The hero’s pose and exaggerated musculature are a result of the artist’s intense study of ancient models, and emulate specific antique sculptures depicting river gods in the Farnese collection. Carracci also worked with full knowledge of Michelangelo’s frescoes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508-10), and the pose of Hercules may have been inspired by the reclining figure of Adam in Michelangelo's Creation of Adam scene.",
    "date": "1595–97",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.52.b",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 35.5 x 52.4 cm (14 x 20 5/8 in.); Secondary Support: 36.6 x 53.3 cm (14 7/16 x 21 in.); Tertiary Support: 38.3 x 55 cm (15 1/16 x 21 5/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
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    "tec": "black chalk",
    "tombstone": "Footed Vessel with Handle (verso), 1595–97. Annibale Carracci (Italian, c. 1560–1609). Black chalk; sheet: 35.5 x 52.4 cm (14 x 20 5/8 in.); secondary support: 36.6 x 53.3 cm (14 7/16 x 21 in.); tertiary support: 38.3 x 55 cm (15 1/16 x 21 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1997.52.b",
    "supportMaterials": [
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            "description": "blue laid paper (faded to brown-green), laid down to beige(1) laid paper, perimeter mounted to tertiary support of white Japanese paper"
        }
    ],
    "collection": "DR - Italian",
    "didYouKnow": "The squares drawn lightly over this composition suggest that it was used to transfer the design to another surface such as a full-scale cartoon.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: P. 11, 46-47, 285, cat. no. 13"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Carracci, Annibale, and Daniele Benati. <em>The Drawings of Annibale Carracci</em>. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1999.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 34, pp. 136-138"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1997.52.b",
    "creditline": "Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:18:30.689000",
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    "sourceId": 160083,
    "dept": "Drawings",
    "coll": "DR - Italian",
    "med": "black chalk",
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