Hercules en Cacus, Hendrick Goltzius, 1588

Title(s)

Hercules en Cacus

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1937-741

Catalogue reference

• The Illustrated Bartsch 231-2(4)
• Hollstein Dutch 373-3(4)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228a
• collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Description

Hercules heft een grote knots op om Cacus, op de grond liggend in zijn grot, te slaan.

Artist

• print maker: Hendrick Goltzius
• after own design by: Hendrick Goltzius (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Willem Janszoon Blaeu (possibly)

Place

print maker: Haarlem
publisher: Amsterdam

Dating

1588

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 410 mm × width 333 mm

What

• Cacus, the fire-breathing monster is killed in his cave by Hercules

Credit line

• F.G. Waller Bequest, Amsterdam

Acquisition

bequest 1937

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Hercules en Cacus

• Cornelis van Haarlem 1562-1638, p. 36, afb. 21
• Dawn of the Golden Age : northern Netherlandish art 1580-1620 [ : 1 1993a], Ger C.M. Luijten, , , , Marijn Schapelhouman, p. 344-345, cat.nr. 12
• Chiaroscuro woodcuts : Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) and his time, p. 103-114, cat.nr. 25
• H. Leeflang, De kunst van de houtsnede, Even zeldzaam als onovertroffen, in: Kunstschrift 3 (2009), p. 42, afb. 47