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Antonio Tempesta

Hercules and the Boar of Erymanthus: Hercules holds down the boar's snout with his left hand and raises his club with his right hand, in the middle ground Hercules carries the boar on his shoulders, from the series 'The Labors of Hercules'

1608
Etching
13.9 × 17.5 cm (5.5 × 6.9 in)

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