Seated Hercules

1590·Black chalk, with pen and brown ink and touches of red chalk, on buff laid paper, pieced together and tipped onto blue laid paper·27.4 × 17.9 cm (10 13/16 × 7 1/16 in.)

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Catalogue

Year: 1590
Medium: Black chalk, with pen and brown ink and touches of red chalk, on buff laid paper, pieced together and tipped onto blue laid paper
Dimensions: 27.4 × 17.9 cm (10 13/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Adriaen de Vries

Artist

Adriaen de Vries

Sculpture

Adriaen de Vries was a Northern Mannerist sculptor born in the Netherlands but working in Central Europe, whose international style crossed the threshold to the Baroque; he excelled in refined modelling and bronze casting and in the manipulation of patina and became the most famous European sculptor of his generation. He also excelled in draughtsmanship.

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