Landscape with Hercules and Cacus
Landscape with Hercules and Cacus is a c.1660 oil on canvas painting by Nicolas Poussin, now in the Pushkin Museum. It depicts a scene from lines 190-275 of Book VIII of Virgil's Aeneid.
Its early history is unknown. It and the same artist's Landscape with Polyphemus were bought by Denis Diderot for Catherine the Great for the Hermitage Museum.[1] Diderot gave them both to Prince Dmitri Alekseyevich Gallitzin, who transported them to The Hague and thence to Saint Petersburg. Polyphemus remains in the Hermitage, whilst Hercules and Cacus was moved to its present home in 1930.[2]
References
- ^ (in Russian) Серебрянная Н. К., Государственный Эрмитаж. Французская живопись XV—XVII веков: Каталог коллекции. — СПб.: Изд-во Государственного Эрмитажа, 2018. — 496 pages — ISBN 978-5-93572-811-3. - p. 381, 383-385
- ^ Кузнецова И. А., Шарнова Е. Б. Франция XVI — первой половины XIX века : собрание живописи : каталог / Ирина Кузнецова, Елена Шарнова; Государственный музей изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина. — М. : Красная площадь, 2001. — 479 pages : ил., цв. ил., портр. — № 182. — ISBN 5-900743-57-8. — p. 202-204