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The Triumphant Hercules with the Vanquished Hydra, c. 1618. Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on buff laid paper, ruled in pen and brown ink, laid down on paperboard.
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on buff laid paper, ruled in pen and brown ink, laid down on paperboard · Primary support: 22.3 × 12.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Triumphant Hercules with the Vanquished Hydra
- Artist
- Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino Italian, 1591-1666
- Date
- c. 1618
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash on buff laid paper, ruled in pen and brown ink, laid down on paperboard
- Dimensions
- Primary support: 22.3 × 12.8 cm (8 13/16 × 5 1/16 in.); Secondary support: 22.2 × 13 cm (8 3/4 × 5 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1591–1666
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.