IIKRCITLES HERCULES AND THE HYDRA, Gm<h Reui, Louvre ; cnnvns, H. 8 ft. 7 in x I! ft. <> in. Hercules, armed with the club, strikes the Lcrncun Hydra, which raises its head near a rock. Same history as /Ii-railr* and Achelous of Guido. Engraved by G. Rous- selet. Laiuloii, Musee, ii. PI. 30 ; Laroussc, ix. 214. HERCULES, INFANT, attributed to An- nibale, but probably by Agostino Carrmi-i, Louvre ; canvas, H. (!^ in. x 51 in. The young Hercules strangles a serpent with his left hand while holding down a second one. Ir.fant Hercules, Agostino Carracci (?), Lou which has twined about his right arm, with his knee upon his cradle. Formerly in Or- leans Gallery, but not sold in England with the other pictures ; bought in Rome for Musee Napoleon. Engraved by Ern. Marace ; Count Bizemont-Pruuele. Villot, Cat. Lou- vre ; Musee fram;ais, i. ; Filhol, i. PI. 03 ; Laudon, Musee, vi. PL 14. HERCULES AND OMPHALE, Luca Giordano, Dresden Gallery ; canvas, H. 7 ft. G in. x 9 ft. 2 in. ; signed, dated KiOO. Hercules, submissive to the charms of Om- phale, has dropped his club and taken up the distaff; the two, who sit side by side, are surrounded by her companions. Painted for Don Andrea d'Avalos, Prince of Monte- sarchio. In catalogue of 1722. Engraved by ('. Hallos. Gal. Roy. do Dresde, i. PI. 40. By Alcssandro Tiin-hi, Munich Gallery ; canvas, H. 5 ft. 1 in. x 7 ft. 3 in. The god, nude, seated in an antique chair, spinning ; before him, Oinphalo, nearly nude, her back covered with the lion's skin, leans one arm on the hero's club, and glances nt her com- panions, three other voting women, who mock Hercules, while Cupid looks on with a pitying expression. Formerly attributed to Doinenichino. HERCULES STRANGLING THE SER- PEN'TS, Sir Joshua Ili-i/nolil.t, Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; canvas. In the centre Her- cules grasps the serpents by the throat, while Iphiclcs cowers in terror beside him ; on one side rushes in Alcmena, with attend- ants, half clad, as if aroused from sleep; on the other, Amphitryon, sword in hand, fol- lowed by servants with torches ; Tircsias the blind seer (head of Samuel Johnson) stands by with uplifted hands ; above, Juno looks down from black clouds at the battling of her vengeance. Painted in 17SS for Cath- erine II. of Russia, who paid for it 1,500 guineas, and sent Sir Joshua in addition a gold snuff-box, on which was her portrait with cypher in diamonds. Engraved by J. Hodges, J. Walker ; original sketch in pos- session of Lord Arran. Lord Fitzwillinni owns a repetition of the figure of the Her- cules. Leslie Taylor, ii. 4*2. 500, 51U, 538; Pulling, 83 ; Northeote, ii. 214 ; Bcechcy. i. 244 ; Art Journal (IS(iO), 358 ; Notes and Queries, 4th S., ix. 333 ; Atkinson, Art Tour, 248. HERCULES, TEMPLE OF, Francia lii- ijio, UfHx.i, Florence ; wood. The statue of Hercules, on a pedestal, under the portico of a temple, with soldiers, philosophers, and others grouped around it. Of his late pe- riod. Probably part of a cassone or chest. C. & C., Italy, iii. 512 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecolc florentinc ; Molini, Gal. di Fircuzc, ii. Gl ; Lasinio, i. PL (J3. 241
