Sujet

Hercules at the Court of Omphale, 1537. Creators: Hans Cranach, Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Légende

Hercules at the Court of Omphale, 1537. In Greek legend, Hercules murdered his friend Iphitus in a struggle for power and who was thus punished by Hermes, who sold him to the court of Queen Omphale where he had to remain as a slave for three years. Hercules is seated on a wooden bench, surrounded by three courtly women and subjected to female rule, despite his celebrated physical strength. None of the women wears any distinctive item of dress or adornment for which reason it has been suggested that they are the queen’s ladies-in-waiting.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A25_032

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NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

47,3Mo (2,0Mo) / 42,0cm x 28,2cm / 4960 x 3336 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Germany portrait female women woman people male group man men domestic religious German arts painting country religion art guy beard museum headdress color spinning deity God Renaissance location century disguise household bearded concept legend punishment mythology disguised facial hair four people headgear punishing yarn head-dress oil Painting servitude Colour messing About Hercules legendary Herakles Greek mythology 16th century sixteenth century courtier lady-in-waiting Spinning Jenny wimple spinning a yarn Omphale Lucas Cranach the Elder Heracles Cranach the Elder Lucas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection ladies in waiting ladies-in-waiting Cranach Lucas Heritage Art oil on panel Hans Cranach Cranach Hans Johann Lucas Cranach 1530s Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum