Art, literature & history
Hercules Stealing the Horses of Diomedes
1540–83
- Dating
- Date range
- Medium
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- Plate: 2 5/16 × 2 15/16 in. (5.8 × 7.5 cm) Sheet: 2 11/16 × 3 1/16 in. (6.8 × 7.7 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2012.136.189
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Etienne Delaune. Hercules Stealing the Horses of Diomedes. Etienne Delaune; 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 Stealing the Horses of Diomedes — Etienne Delaune. 1540–83.
Medium: Engraving. Dimensions: Plate: 2 5/16 × 2 15/16 in. (5.8 × 7.5 cm) Sheet: 2 11/16 × 3 1/16 in. (6.8 × 7.7 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.