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Hercules and Achelous: at center Hercules grasps the horns of a bull while pressing his right foot onto its leg, at left Hercules wrestles a serpent, at right Hercules wrestles a male figure on the ground, from the series 'The Labors of Hercules'
1608
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching
- Dimensions
- sheet: 5 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. (13.9 x 17.5 cm) plate: 3 15/16 x 5 9/16 in. (10 x 14.1 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2012.136.425.8
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Antonio Tempesta. Hercules and Achelous: at center Hercules grasps the horns of a bull while pressing his right foot onto its leg, at left Hercules wrestles a serpent, at right Hercules wrestles a male figure on the ground, from the series 'The Labors of Hercules'. Antonio Tempesta; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
Hercules and Achelous: at center Hercules grasps the horns of a bull while pressing his right foot onto its leg, at left Hercules wrestles a serpent, at right Hercules wrestles a male figure on the ground, from the series 'The Labors of Hercules' — Antonio Tempesta. 1608.
Medium: Etching. Dimensions: sheet: 5 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. (13.9 x 17.5 cm) plate: 3 15/16 x 5 9/16 in. (10 x 14.1 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.