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Antonio Tempesta

Hercules and the Nemean Lion: Hercules grasps the front right leg of the lion, which lifts its snout upward, in the middle ground Hercules pulls the skin from the lion's corpse, from the series 'The Labors of Hercules'

1608
Etching
13.2 × 18 cm (5.2 × 7.1 in)

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