Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides

Provenance

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Artist: Baldassarre Franceschini (il Volterrano) (Italian, Volterra 1611–1690 Florence)
Date: 1612–56
Medium: Red chalk
Dimensions: 10 5/8 x 6 3/4in. (27 x 17.1cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Gift of Walter C. Baker, 1961
Accession no.: 61.6

Standing Draped Male Figure
Baldassarre Franceschini (il Volterrano)
ca. 1550 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00018927
Half-Figure of an Angel Looking Upward (recto); Bust of a Man in Left Profile (verso)
Baldassarre Franceschini (il Volterrano)
1611–89 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019905
Studies of Architectural Moldings, of the Virgin and Child with a Kneeling Saint, and of Two Angels Supporting Frames (recto); Studies for Architectural Mouldings (verso)
Baldassarre Franceschini (il Volterrano)
1611–89 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019906
Allegorical Figure of Purity with a Unicorn (recto); Study for Drapery (verso)
Baldassarre Franceschini (il Volterrano)
1650 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019907

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.