The Farnese Hercules seen from the front, the back and in profile; details of the right arm, head and knee. Engraving by B.L. Prevost after G. Audran.

  • Audran, Gérard, 1640-1703.
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1 print : engraving ; platemark 35.4 x 22.3 cm

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Dessein proportions de l'Hercule Farnese Full measurements of the figure are printed on the sheet Bears number: Pl.XXXIII

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F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique. The lure of classical sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London 1981, pp.229-232, no.46

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Wellcome Collection 33915i

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Copied in reverse from: G. Audran, Les proportions du corps humain, mesurées sur les belles figures de l'antiquité, Paris 1683, pls.5, 6 and 7

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