Ceiling with the Apotheosis of Hercules

The Apotheosis of Hercules: an elongated ceiling divided into compartments. From left to right: Hercules arrives in his chariot drawn by horses, the Olympian gods on the clouds, Hercules frees Hesione, and below, Hercules' fight with the centaurs, and Ceres and Cybele prepare the marriage of Hercules and Hebe. Reproduction of the painted ceiling by Charles Le Brun in the Galerie d'Hercule in the Hôtel Lambert. The print is part of a series of prints representing the painted ceiling with the Apotheosis of Hercules in the Hôtel Lambert in Paris. At the bottom a legend with explanations in French.