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Panel with Grotesque Design and Scenes of the Labors of Hercules
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Panel with Grotesque Design and Scenes of the Labors of Hercules

Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840 · ca. 1800 · Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor on off-white paper, lined with white heavy paper and framed by blue color paper colored light brown and black

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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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Credit linePanel with Grotesque Design and Scenes of the Labors of Hercules. ca. 1800. Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council. CC0.
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