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Hercules Seated, study for Hercules and Omphale
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, upper left, in graphite: "2"; upper right, in graphite: "4/6"
Provenance
Max Hevesi, Vienna. Sold, Christie’s, New York, Jan. 30, 1998, lot 237, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA., given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, "Gifts of a Lifetime," 1998–1999, checklist 26. New York, Frick Collection, "Watteau and His World, French Drawing from 1700 to 1750," 1999, pp. 218–21, cat. 65. Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 53, cat. 26 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," Mar. 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.
Publications
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “Drawings in the Art Institute of Chicago,”Master Drawings 38:3 (Fall 2000), p. 247. Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 53, cat. 26 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- François Lemoyne / French, 1688-1737
- Date
- 1724
- Medium
- Red, black, and white chalk, with stumping, on light brown laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
- Dimensions
- 40.2 × 32 cm (15 7/8 × 12 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- chalk
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.969
More by François Lemoyne in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00005785
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