Art, literature & history
Hercules and the Cretan Bull
c. 1514/1515
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- engraving
- Dimensions
- sheet: 21.4 x 15.7 cm (8 7/16 x 6 3/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1946.21.199
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Giovanni Antonio da Brescia. Hercules and the Cretan Bull. Giovanni Antonio da Brescia; 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:Giovanni_Antonio_da_Brescia,_Hercules_and_the_Cretan_Bull,_c._1514-1515,_NGA_33530.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Hercules and the Cretan Bull — Giovanni Antonio da Brescia. c. 1514/1515.
Medium: engraving.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 21.4 x 15.7 cm (8 7/16 x 6 3/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1946.21.199. Rosenwald Collection.
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.