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Hercules and Omphale   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder  (1472–1553)  wikidata:Q191748
 
Attributed to Lucas Cranach the Elder
Alternative names
Lucas Cranach
Description -German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death 4 October 1472 Edit this at Wikidata 16 October 1553 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kronach Weimar
Work location
Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q191748,P5102,Q230768
and /or
Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder  (1472–1553)  wikidata:Q191748
 
Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder
Alternative names
Lucas Cranach
Description -German painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death 4 October 1472 Edit this at Wikidata 16 October 1553 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kronach Weimar
Work location
Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1774,Q191748
Title
Hercules and Omphale
label QS:Lit,"ercole e onfale"
label QS:Lja,"ヘラクレスとオンファレ"
label QS:Lfr,"Héraclès et Omphale"
label QS:Lpl,"Herkules u Omfali"
label QS:Lru,"Геркулес с Омфала"
label QS:Lde,"Herkules bei Omphale"
label QS:Lpt,"Hércules e Ônfale"
label QS:Len,"Hercules and Omphale"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date 1531
date QS:P571,+1531-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q287,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 81 cm (31.8 in); width: 118 cm (46.4 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,81U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,118U174728
Private collection
institution QS:P195,Q768717
Object history

5 June 1917 auction at Lepke, Berlin, No. 25 (as Lucas Cranach the Elder)
A. von Kolasinski, Warsaw
Anonymous sale, Dusseldorf, Galerie Hugo Helbing (in association with Galerie Alfred Flechtheim and Galerie Georg Paffrath), March 11, 1933, lot 23 (as Lucas Cranach the Elder);
Mrs. Edith R. Bennett;
By whose Estate (anonymously) sold, New York, Sotheby's, April 7, 1966, lot 16 (as Lucas Cranach the Elder)
(After Koepplin, the information in Friedländer, Rosenberg 1979 about the provenance respective Sotheby Parke Bernet 1976 and Minnesota Museum of Art belongs to a copy after this painting. [letter D. Koepplin to Sotheby's New York in the Archive D. Koepplin, 11.2007])

Sotheby's 24. Jan. 2008 at Sotheby`s New York, Lot 29
Exhibition history Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, on loan 1951-1966;
Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Especially Assembled for the State Fair of Texas, Four Centuries of European Painting, 1951, cat. no. 46 (as Lucas Cranach the Elder).
Inscriptions

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'HERCVLEIS MANIBVS DANT LIDAE PENSA PVELLAE
IMPERIVM DOMINAE FERT DEVS ILLE SVAE
SIC ETIAM INGENTES ANIMOS INSANA VOLVPTAS
ET DOMITO MOLLIS PECTORE FRANGIT AMOR.'
and Artist's insignia top centre: winged serpent with elevated wings, facing right and dated '1537'
Notes Friedländer, Rosenberg Nr.: FR274A
English: Probably prime version of this particular composition in which one of Omphale's maidens is depicted resting her hand on Hercules' head, which has been adorned with a woman's cap.1 It is the oldest version of this theme by Cranach. The story relates how Hercules, in punishment for murdering his friend Phitus in a fit of madness, was sold into slavery for three years to Omphale, queen of Lydia. While in her service, he was humiliated by being dressed in women's clothes and being made to perform women's work, such as spinning yarn. Omphale and Hercules eventually became lovers (in some versions they marry) and they had a son.

The subject of Hercules and Omphale was the first example of the theme of Weibermacht or the 'Power of Woman' that was particularly popular in the late Middle Ages, and one that Cranach seems to have delighted in portraying, similar to his 1530 depiction of Phyllis and Aristotle (Sotheby's 24. Jan. 2008 at Sotheby`s New York, lot 78).

Two other versions of this composition are known: one, formerly in the Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, Minnesota, was sold, New York, Sotheby Parke-Bernet, June 16, 1976, lot 99, as Studio of Lucas Cranach the Elder; the second was sold, Cologne, Lempertz, November, 1966, lot 27, and was with Fischer Gallery, Lucerne in December, 1967.
References Cranach Digital Archive
Sothebys
Source/Photographer Sotheby's New York, 24 - 25 Januar 2008, lot 29

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