Hercule Dompté Par L'Amour (Hercules Mastered by Love), plate 25 from the series Histoire Ancienne (Ancient History) in Le Charivari

Inscriptions

Lettered, upper center: HISTOIRE ANCIENNE; lettered, upper right: 25.; inscribed, on stone, lower left: 411; initialled, on stone, lower right: h.D.; lettered, lower left margin: Chez Bauger, R. du Croissant 16; lettered, lower right margin: Imp. d'Aubert & C.ie [ie in superscript]; lettered, lower center: HERCULE DOMPTÉ PAR L'AMOUR / Ce dieu malin qui dans sa course triomphale / Soumet tout; Rois, Pasteurs, Héros et Députés; / D'Alcide interrompit les exploits redoutés / Pour enchaîner aux pieds d'Omphale. / Poésies galantes de Mr. Sauzet.; inscribed, in graphite, lower right: 18 [illegible] x 42 1925 [Translated text: HERCULES TAMED BY LOVE. /This mischievous God in his triumphant ways / subjects all, kings, shepherds, heroes and gays, / Alcide interrupts his dreaded exploits / and binds him while Omphale overjoys]

Course History

CLST 04, Classical Mythology, Simone Oppen, Fall 2019

CLST 04, Classical Mythology, Simone Oppen - INDEPENDENT VIEWING, Fall 2019

Provenance

Varujan Boghosian, Hanover, New Hampshire; given to present collection, 2003.

Catalogue Raisonne

Hazard (1904); 1925; Delteil (1926): 949; Daumier Register: 949

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