Hercules and the fight with Antaeus

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Hercules and the fight with Antaeus

Salomon Van Abbé (1883-1955)

Price

~~£1,450~~ £400

Signed

Signed
Inscribed 'Lifting Antæus off his feet into the air, and squeezing, and squeezing, and squeezing him' and 'The Three Golden Apples, p 97' below mount

Medium

Watercolour bodycolour and ink

Dimensions

12 x 8 inches

Provenance

The Dent Archive Sale, Sothebys, 10 June 1988

Illustrated

Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls, London: J M Dent & Son, 1949, 'The Three Golden Apples', facing page 114

Unmounted

Hercules defeats the giant Antaeus, son of Earth goddess Gaia, by lifting him in the air and preventing him from touching the ground, from whence he acquires his immense strength, he then crushes him to death.

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