The Judgment of Hercules (Shaftesbury, Characteristics, 1713) - Gribelin after P. de Matteis

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The Judgment of Hercules (Shaftesbury, Characteristics, 1713) - Gribelin after P. de Matteis

The Judgment of Hercules (Shaftesbury, Characteristics, 1713) - Gribelin after P. de Matteis

Artist :
Gribelin, Simon ou Gribelin fils (1661 ou 1662-1733)
De Matteis, Paolo (1662-1728)
Date :
1713
Type of image :
Estampe
Dimensions (HxL cm) :
10,3x17,9 cm
Topic :
Sujet allégorique. Hercule entre le vice et la vertu
Storage Location :
Londres, British Museum
1896,1230.268
Signed work

Description

Pleasure, depicted as a woman reclining on the ground under a tree to the right, with a dish, cup and amphora decorated with a Bacchanalian scene, but looking intently to the left at Virtue, another woman fully clothed in profile addressing Hercules, pointing up a path to a mountain in the background, with a drawn sword in her right hand, a helmet on the rock beside her ; in a false frame with scrolls; after Mattheis; title page of Treatise VII. viz. A Notion of the Historical Draught or Tablature of the Judgment of Hercules on page 345 of the third volume of the second edition of Lord Shaftesbury's Characteristicks of men, manners, opinions, times (London, 1714).

History :

1. Signed below the engraving on the left "Paolo de Matthaeis Pinx.", on the right "Sim. Gribelin Sculps."

2. Engraving from Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury, " A notion of the historical draught or tablature of the judgment of Hercules ", 1713, reprinted in Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (London, 1714), vol. 3.

3. Wiggling Hercules, leaning on his club, recalls the posture of Hercules Farnese.

Textual Sources :
Xénophon, Les Mémorables (390 av. JC)
II, 1. Dialogue de Socrate et d’Aristippe. Apologue de Prodicus sur Hercule
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, comte de (1671-1713)
Tablature of the Judgement of Hercules (Characteristicks, vol. III)

Technical Data

Notice #000990

Image HD

Past ID :
A0309
Image editing :
Image web
Image Origin :
Collections en ligne du British Museum (http://www.britishmuseum.org)
Copyright / Photographer :
Licence CC0 4.0

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