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Hercules and the Hydra

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Hercules and the Hydra

Simon Vouet | Michel Dorigny

1651

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Plate: 10 3/16 × 7 11/16 in. (25.9 × 19.6 cm) Sheet: 10 13/16 × 8 5/16 in. (27.4 × 21.1 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Simon Vouet

1590–1649 • France

French painter. Comment on works: Portraits; Religious; Mythology; Allegory

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