Herkules im Nessusgewand,

vor 1637

Material / Technology / Carrier

Leinwand

Dimensions of the object

176 x 232 cm

Displayed

Not on display

Department

Deutsche Malerei

Genre

Malerei

Inventory number

1631

Acquisition

Aus der Kurfürstlichen Galerie München

Stock

Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München

Citation

Ulrich Loth, Herkules im Nessusgewand, vor 1637, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/Y0GRlA8xRX (Last updated on 10.08.2022)

Returning after a period of several years in Italy where he became familiar with Caravaggesque painting in Rome, the Munich court painter Ulrich Loth was commissioned by Maximilian I to create a third painting in landscape format for the Old Palace in Schleißheim to complement a pair of works by Alessandro Turchi, completed earlier around 1620. Loth added a further scene from the life of the hero to the counterpieces—‘The Fury of Hercules’ and ‘Hercules and Omphale’—that recounts Hercules’s worldy end from wearing a poisoned tunic.