c. 1630
Hercules as Heroic Virtue Overcoming Discord
Christoffel JegherFlemish, baptized 1596 - died 1652/53
The painter Peter Paul Rubens worked closely with Christoffel Jegher, a woodcutter in Antwerp, to produce woodcuts after his designs. This print is a remarkable example of Jegher’s skill at adapting techniques developed through drawing and engraving such as swelling lines and cross-hatching. The dynamism of this violent scene twists up through the dimensionality of the forms conveyed entirely in overlapping, curving lines.
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