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Hercules and Antaeus
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo18th century
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: Hercules and Antaeus
- Creator: Attributed to Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
- Date Created: 18th century
- Subject Keywords: Hercules
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in pen, lower left: "Dom. Tiepolo f"
- Object Type: Drawings, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1937
- Materials & Techniques: Pen and wash over a sketch in pencil on heavyweight laid paper. Watermark: No watermark
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Dimensions: 1804
- Bibliography: See Hercules and Antaeus, cat. 43, in George Szabo “XVIII Century Venetian Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection,” Metropolitan Museum 1982 (figures on a base possibly copied from small bronze sculpture); see F.W. Robinson, One Hundred Master Drawings from New England Private Collections, 1973, cat. 37, for fully developed scene in landscape; see Byam Shaw, Domenico Tiepolo, cat. 34 and p. 42; see donor file for correspondence
- Associated People: Attributed to Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727-1804)
- Accession Number: 1937.D1.98
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