The Farnese Hercules

François Perrier (French, 1594–1649)

1633

Medium/Technique Etching in black and white ink on gray-brown paper

Dimensions Sheet: 17.3 × 9.8 cm (6 13/16 × 3 7/8 in.)(trimmed on or slightly within the platemark)

Credit Line Stephen Bullard Memorial Fund

Accession Number2002.140

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Robert-Dumesnil 037, only state; Le Blanc 34; Clark 5

Marks Verso of backing sheet, lower right, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)

InscriptionsHercules farnesij Romae / Franciscus Perrier burgundus sculpsit 1633

ProvenancePrivate collection, Germany; by 2002 with James Bergquist, MA; 2002 sold to MFA June 26, 2002