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Hercules Raising his Club: Study for “Hercules and Cacus”
Inscriptions
Inscribed verso, lower left, black ink: "a."
Provenance
Jules Alexandre Duval Le Camus (1814–1878), Paris [stamp (L.1441) recto, lower right, in black]. Christian and Isabelle Adrien, Paris, from 1970; sold, Sotheby’s, Paris, Mar. 22, 2018, lot 43, through François Borne to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
Exhibition history
Mexico City, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Arte de las Academias Francia y México, siglos XVII–XIX, 1999–2000, pp. 120–21. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Une collection particulière: les dessins de la collection Christian et Isabelle Adrien, 2012, cat. 54, p. 151. Musée du Domaine Départemental de Sceaux, Dessiner à l’Académie royale: Chefs-d’oeuvre de la collection Christian et Isabelle Adrien, 2013. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries of Art from the Gray Collection", January 25 - May 10, 2020, pp. 62-63, cat. 24, p. 137, GC 60, traveled to New York, The Morgan Library, February 19 - June 6, 2021, and Berkeley CA, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, August 4 - November 28, 2021.
Publications
Jean-Luc Bordeaux, François Le Moyne and His Generation (1688–1737) (Arthena, 1984), p. 143, under no. 9, fig. 136.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- François Lemoyne / French, 1688–1737
- Date
- 1717
- Medium
- Black chalk, with white chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 41 × 24.7 cm (16 3/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- drawings (visual works)
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
- Accession no.
- 2019.880
More by François Lemoyne in museum collections
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Open-access museum record · AT-00006205
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