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Using only black chalk heightened with white to convey flesh tones, François Lemoyne convincingly depicted the hero Hercules in full swing, fully embodied and activated, and positioned surprisingly like a baseball player at bat. One of two known studies for the figure in Lemoyne’s painting Hercules Clubbing Cacus, this sheet powerfully conveys the artist’s graphic skill.
The painting illustrates the 10th labor of Hercules, in which the hero was commanded to bring the monster Geryon’s cattle back to Rome. After discovering that the giant Cacus stole several of the cattle, Hercules clubs him to death.
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| Medium | chalk |
| Dimensions | 24 × 41 Cm |
| Certificate | Certificate not provided |
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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...
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.
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given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.
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sold, Sotheby’s, Paris, Mar....
sold, Sotheby’s, Paris, Mar. 22, 2018, lot 43, through François Borne to the Gray Collection Trust, Chicago
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exhibition
Musée du Domaine Départemental de Sceaux, Dessiner à l’Académie royale: Chefs-d’oeuvre de la collection Christian et Isabelle Adrien, 2013.
Musée du Domaine Départemental de Sceaux, Dessiner à l’Académie royale: Chefs-d’oeuvre de la collection Christian et Isabelle Adrien, 2013.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Une collection particulière: les dessins de la collection Christian et Isabelle Adrien, 2012, cat. 54, p. 151.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, Une collection particulière: les dessins de la collection Christian et Isabelle Adrien, 2012, cat. 54, p. 151.
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Mexico City, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Arte de las Academias Francia y México, siglos XVII–XIX, 1999–2000, pp. 120–21.
Mexico City, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Arte de las Academias Francia y México, siglos XVII–XIX, 1999–2000, pp. 120–21.
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Jean-Luc Bordeaux, François Le Moyne and His Generation
Jean-Luc Bordeaux, François Le Moyne and His Generation (1688–1737) (Arthena, 1984), p. 143, under no. 9, fig. 136.
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Jules Alexandre Duval Le Camus (1814–1878), Paris [stamp (L....
Jules Alexandre Duval Le Camus (1814–1878), Paris [stamp (L.1441) recto, lower right, in black]. Christian and Isabelle Adrien, Paris, from 1970
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