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Hercules with the Broken Column
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Hercules with the Broken Column

Jan Pieter van Baurscheit (I) · c. 1722 - c. 1728 · sculpting; sandstone

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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This is one of a group of four statues, all of which are in this garden. The statues originally stood in the garden of Bosch en Hoven, a country estate near Haarlem. They were made by Jan Pieter Baurscheit the Elder, an Antwerp sculptor and architect often engaged by patrons in the Dutch Republic.

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Credit lineHercules met de gebroken zuil. c. 1722 - c. 1728. Jan Pieter van Baurscheit (I). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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