Hercules en Cacus, Hendrick Goltzius, 1588

Title(s)

Hercules en Cacus

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-10.468

Catalogue reference

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

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240
• signature: ‘HGoltzius Jnve.’
• date: ‘Ao. 88’

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 411 mm × width 334 mm

What

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

Acquisition

transfer 1816

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Hercules en Cacus

• Cornelis van Haarlem 1562-1638, p. 36, afb. 21
• Chiaroscuro woodcuts : Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617) and his time, p. 103-114, cat.nr. 25
• Clair-obscur houtsneden, Fieke Tissink
• H. Leeflang, De kunst van de houtsnede, Even zeldzaam als onovertroffen, in: Kunstschrift 3 (2009), p. 42, afb. 47