A Hercules Episode

ca. 1540-1550 (Renaissance)

6.8 cm 4 cm

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The scene is difficult to identify. On the left is a seated figure designated as ERCVLES, which is a type of Hercules that belongs to the glyptics and coins of the 5th century BC. The enameller may have copied it from an Etruscan gem. The figure on the right, getting braced fo...

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Sale, Galleria Sangiorgi, Rome, April 21, 1902 (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902 (?), by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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