Hercules driving off the cattle of Geryon, at the right are the nymphs of Hesperides

1531–76

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Engraving and etching
Dimensions: sheet: 11 5/8 x 17 3/8 in. (29.5 x 44.2 cm)
Collection no.: 59.595.11
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giulio Bonasone. Hercules driving off the cattle of Geryon, at the right are the nymphs of Hesperides. Giulio Bonasone; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959. 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 driving off the cattle of Geryon, at the right are the nymphs of Hesperides — Giulio Bonasone. 1531–76.

Medium: Engraving and etching. Dimensions: sheet: 11 5/8 x 17 3/8 in. (29.5 x 44.2 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959.

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.

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