Hercule vainqueur Artist: Charles-Joseph Traviès (Swiss, 1804–1859, active in France)

Published May 1st, 1834

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Lithograph

Dimensions

sheet: 21 3/4 × 14 7/16 in. (55.2 × 36.6 cm)

Credit Line

Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund

Accession Number

2015.64.1

Geography

Made in Switzerland

Culture

Swiss

Period

19th century

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
Purchase, French print dealer
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions 2015," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2015), 81
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

caricatures, dissident art, lithographs, nudes (representations), political art

Edition

Impression sur blanc

Inscriptions

Center, in stone, on front surface of platform: HERCULE VAINQUEUR; UL corner in stone: La Caricature (Journal) No 182; UR corner in stone: Pl 382 et 383; LL in stone: Au bureau chez Aubert, pass., Véro Dodat; LR in stone: Lith. Delaunois, rue du Bouloy, 19; LC, in stone: STATUE ANTIQUE/Trouvée dans les ruines d'une ville autrefois riche, florissant & populeuse. Le demi Dieu est revête de la peau de Lion. Il parait se reposer après un de ses pénibles travaux.

Signed

In stone, just below figure on platform: C.J.T.

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