Ancient Sarcophagus Relief with the Labors of Hercules

A pen and brown ink drawing with brush wash shows several nude male figures arranged in a shallow, relief-like space. A standing youth at left gazes forward while a second figure raises an arm high at center, with a partly visible figure at right and a rocky mass below.

Artist

Girolamo da Carpi

Date

n.d.

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, and traces of black chalk, on buff laid paper, pieced at center

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 2234 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection