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Hercules at the Feet of Omphale

1861

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The story

After Hercules killed Iphitus, the Delphic Oracle ordered him to serve Queen Omphale of Lydia as a slave for a year. Later tellings made it a comic reversal of the sexes, with the hero in women's clothes holding wool while Omphale wore his lion skin and carried his club.

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Object details

Title: Hercules at the Feet of Omphale
Artist: Gustave Boulanger
Date: 1861
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: Location not traced
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0659
Original image: 1156 × 1600 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Gustave Boulanger. Hercules at the Feet of Omphale. 1861. Location not traced. Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0659/