Cooper Hewitt
Panel with Grotesque Design and Scenes of the Labors of Hercules
Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · ca. 1800
Design for a wall panel with a vertical composition. Episodes from the life of Hercules are interspersed amidst a finely drawn, elaborate display of gardens, urns, nymphs, leafy arbors, pavilions and arabesques. The panel's representations include, from the bottom up: Hercules and Dejanira; Hercules and Antaeus; Hercules and Cerverus; Hercules and the Cretan bull; Hercules and Nemean lion; Hercules carrying the apples of the Hesperides; Hercules killing the Hydra; Hercules and Geryon (?); Hercules as boy with snake; Mercury advising Hercules.
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