Frans Floris (1519-1570) - Labours of Hercules:Fighting the Centaurs

\Artist: Frans Floris (1519-1570)
Technique: Etching\Signature: Plate signed\Dimensions: 223_285_1_mm
The Labours of Hercules Hercules Prevents the Centaurs from abducting Hippodamia; Hercules fights the centaurs with his club and overturns a table with a vine archway behind; a figure at left has an arrow through his head and is pinned to a tree trunk; after Floris. 1563 Engraving by Cornelis Cort (1533-1578) After: Frans Floris (1519-1570) After a lost series of paintings by Floris painted in 1554-55 for the villa of the merchant and art collector Nicolaas Jongelinck in Markgravelei, just outside Antwerp. Reference: New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (67. IV) Bierens de Haan 1948 / L'oeuvre gravé de Cornelis Cort, graveur hollandais 1533-1578 (172) Van de Velde 1975 / Frans Floris (1519/20-1570) , Leven en Werken (46) Riggs 1977 / Hieronymus Cock, Printmaker and Publisher (78) Wouk, Frans Floris / Frans Floris (1519/20-1570) : Imagining a Northern Renaissance. (67) Condition: Good impression with nice plate tone trimmed on plate border with mostly tread margins, narrow top right. Mounted on a collection sheet.