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Title: Hercules and the Nemean Lion: Hercules grasps the front right leg of the lion, which lifts its snout upward, in the middle ground Hercules pulls the skin from the lion's corpse, from the series 'The Labors of Hercules'
Series/Portfolio: The Labors of Hercules
Artist:
Antonio Tempesta (Italian, Florence 1555–1630 Rome)
Date: 1608
Medium: Etching
Dimensions:
sheet: 5 3/16 x 7 1/16 in. (13.2 x 18 cm)
plate: 3 15/16 x 5 9/16 in. (10 x 14.2 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number: 2012.136.425.10
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