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Hercules and a Muse

Primary (Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany, circa 1480–1538)
NationalityGerman, Europe
Datecirca 1521-1526
MediumEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 2 11/16 × 1 3/4 in. (6.8 × 4.5 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Leo Steinberg Collection, 2002.762
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2002.762
On View
Not on view
Label Text
After an Italian niello. In later impressions of the first state a crack crossing the legs of Hercules and teh legs of the muse. (NH e.33)
Exhibitions
Horatius Cocles Leaping into the Tiber
Albrecht Altdorfer
circa 1520–1526
Hercules or The Effects of Jealousy
Copy after Albrecht Dürer
circa 1498