ECL-Bm.14:34-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.14:34-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Statue group: Hercules and hydra
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Sampson catalogue states :
The drawings, by a variety of artists are sometimes stuck to the pages of this volume and do not keep to the place allotted to them by number. Three drawings are missing.
The drawings, by a variety of artists are sometimes stuck to the pages of this volume and do not keep to the place allotted to them by number. Three drawings are missing.
Description
Content (description)
Young Hercules, nude and with a fillet round his short hair, wrestles with the Hydra, which is entwined round a tree trunk between his legs. Various serpent-like heads are visible and one human one, with its mouth open in agony. Hercules' left foot holds down one of the Hydra's coils, while he brandishes a burning torch at a coil held in his left hand.
Content (object)
statue
Content (note)
Now in the Museo Capitolino, Galleria no. 61.
Dimensions
height (actual size): 500mm
width (actual size): 388mm
width (actual size): 388mm
Inscription
In aedib. Verospi written in ink on the front of the drawing lower right
Giovanni Bigatti fe. signed in red pencil lower left
Giovanni Bigatti fe. signed in red pencil lower left
Materials & techniques note
red chalk and red pencil on paper
Production
Person
Bigatti, Giovanni (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• Führer (no. 1230)
