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Mythology & Putti

Mythology & Putti

CHARLES NICOLAS COCHIN (1688-1754)

Hercules as the Deity of Eloquence

c.1725-1730

Etching | 27.4 x 24.9 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 851703

A facsimile of a drawing now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no.WA1846.212); reproduced in reverse. The drawing, formerly attributed to Raphael, is now ascribed to his school. Lettered with title and production details. This is a monochrome impression of a chiaroscuro woodcut plate published in Recueil Crozat, Paris 1729, plate 38. Other chiaroscuro woodcut impressions at RCINs 851700, 851701, 851702.
  • Creator(s)

    Charles Nicolas Cochin (1688-1754) (etcher)

    After a work by the school of Raphael (1483-1520) (artist)

    Vincent Lesueur (1668-1743) (wood cutter)

  • annotation: [...]nd / 50 [front, lower right, in pencil]

  • 27.4 x 24.9 cm (sheet of paper)

  • HERCULE GAULOIS, ou L'ELOQUENCE.

  • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

  • Subject(s)
    • Language, Linguistics and Literature
      • Literature
        • Fiction
          • Tales & legends
            • Myths
    • Religion & Theology
      • Religions and faiths
        • Religions of antiquity
          • Classical mythology
            • Hercules
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • prints
  • Other number(s)

    Ruland p.129 C.XIII.4