Hercules and the Hydra of Lerna

Provenance

Gustave Duruflé (1834–1909), Paris [invoice and Mathieu 1976]. Georges Wildenstein (1892–1963), Paris; confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (E.R.R.), before January 15, 1943 [January 15, 1943 is the date the drawing was entered into the E.R.R.’s records at the Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris; see ERR card W162]; recovered by the American Forces’ Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Service (M.F.A.A.) and processed at the Munich Central Art Collecting Point, June 27, 1945 [Central Collecting Point card]; repatriated to France, October 10, 1946 and restituted to Georges Wildenstein (date unknown) [Central Collecting Point card; Cultural Plunder by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg: Database of Art Objects at the Jeu de Paume (on-line)]; by descent to his son, Daniel Wildenstein (1917–2001), 1963–at least 1976 [Mathieu, 1976]. Sold by Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, to the Art Institute, 1983.

Hercules and the Hydra of Lerna

Gustave Moreau

c. 1876

Accession Number

100264

Medium

Pen and brown and black ink and graphite, with touches of brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white, discolored, on cream laid paper prepared with a pale brown wash, tipped on blue laid paper, laid down on cream board

Dimensions

18.3 × 15.8 cm (7 1/4 × 6 1/4 in.)

Classification

pen and ink drawings

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation