Medallion with Hercules Strangling Serpents
Even as a baby, Hercules demonstrated his superhuman strength, when he strangled two serpents sent by the goddess Juno to kill him.Prints based on compositions by Italian painters were used by French artists as sources for mythological imagery and as stylistic models reflectin...
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27645
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object
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normalized
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provenance
Charles Mannheim [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; J. Pierpont Morgan, New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown] no. 893; Arnold Seligmann, Rey, & Co., New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1919, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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1
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| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_44.212_Fnt_SL.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_44.212_Fnt_SL.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_44.212_Fnt_SL.jpg |
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.212 |
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Medium
painted enamel on copper
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