Panel with Grotesque Design and Scenes of the Labors of Hercules
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1800
name: label: Architect
content: Charles Normand, French, 1765 – 1840
notes: label: Description
content: Design for a wall panel with a vertical composition. Episodes from the life of Hercules are interspersed amidst a finely drawn, elaborate display of gardens, urns, nymphs, leafy arbors, pavilions and arabesques. The panel's representations include, from the bottom up: Hercules and Dejanira; Hercules and Antaeus; Hercules and Cerverus; Hercules and the Cretan bull; Hercules and Nemean lion; Hercules carrying the apples of the Hesperides; Hercules killing the Hydra; Hercules and Geryon (?); Hercules as boy with snake; Mercury advising Hercules.
place: label: made in
content: France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1911-28-500
objectType: label: Type
content: ornament
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor on off-white paper, lined with white heavy paper and framed by blue color paper colored light brown and black
label: Dimensions
content: 71.4 x 20.5 cm (28 1/8 x 8 1/16 in.)