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The Farnese Hercules, front view [plate 2]
1638
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 22.23 × 13.02 cm (8 3/4 × 5 1/8 in.) sheet: 33.66 × 22.23 cm (13 1/4 × 8 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2017.126.8
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
François Perrier. The Farnese Hercules, front view [plate 2]. François Perrier; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fran%C3%A7ois_Perrier,_The_Farnese_Hercules,_front_view_(plate_2),_1638,_NGA_212460.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Farnese Hercules, front view [plate 2] — François Perrier. 1638.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 22.23 × 13.02 cm (8 3/4 × 5 1/8 in.) sheet: 33.66 × 22.23 cm (13 1/4 × 8 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2017.126.8. Gift of David H. McDonnell.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.