Study for Hercules Slaying the Serpent Ladon in the Garden of the Hesperides
A pen and brown ink drawing with brown wash shows a muscular nude hero swinging a club above a coiled serpent with a long snout. Two figures flank the scene among stylized trees, and a rocky landscape stretches behind them.
- Artist
- Andrea Lilio
- Date
- c. 1626
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (discolored), over red chalk, on ivory laid paper, indented for tran
- Source
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Size
- 1686 × 2290 px
Public domain · Art Institute of Chicago releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1699).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Art Institute of Chicago, is_public_domain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection