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American Paintings and Sculpture
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Artist: Samuel Finley Breese Morse, American, 1791–1872, B.A. 1810, M.A. 1816, LL.D. 1846
Dying Hercules
1812
Oil on canvas
96 1/4 × 78 1/8 in. (244.5 × 198.4 cm)
Gift of the artist
1866.3
Geography:
Made in United Kingdom, Great Britain
Status:
On view
Culture:
American
Period:
19th century
Classification:
Paintings
Bibliography:
Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 41, fig. 36.
Amy Galpin et al., Behold, America!, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2012), 100, fig. fig. 43.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
