Hercule Gaulois, ou l'Eloquence du Recueil Crozat (The Gallic Hercules as Deity of Eloquence from the Cabinet Crozat)
Charles Nicolas Cochin (the Elder), French, 1688 - 1754
Vincent Le Sueur, French, 1688 - 1743
after Raphael, Italian, 1483 - 1520
about 1727
Woodcut, printed in ochre from two blocks, with etched lines in black on laid paper
Plate: 11 1/8 × 10 1/16 in. (28.3 × 25.5 cm)
Sheet: 11 1/2 × 10 3/8 in. (29.2 × 26.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Jean and Adolph Weil Jr. 1935 Fund
2011.31.1
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower center: HERCULE GAULOIS, ou L'ELOQUENCE. / d'Apres le dessein de Raphaël, qui est dans le Cabinet de M.r [r in superscript] Crozat / de la mesme grandeur de l'Estampe gravé en cuivre par Charles Nicolas Cochin, et en bois par Vincent le Sueur.; inscribed, in plate, lower right: 38.
Course History
CLST 04, Classical Mythology, Simone Oppen, Fall 2019
CLST 04, Classical Mythology, Simone Oppen - INDEPENDENT VIEWING, Fall 2019
Published References
Leca, Benedict, "And Art Book and Its Viewers: The 'Recueil Crozat' and the Uses of Reproductive Engraving," Eighteenth-Century Studies, Col. 38, No. 4 (Summer, 2005), pp. 623-649.
Provenance
James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 2011.
Catalogue Raisonne
IFF 50; LeBlanc 28 (as Lesueur); LeBlanc 50 (as Cochin)
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