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Jacob Jacobsz de Wet II (Haarlem 1641/2 - Amsterdam 1697)
The Infant Hercules Strangling Serpents 1673-75
Oil on canvas | 153.7 x 174.5 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 401240
King's Bedchamber, Palace of Holyroodhouse
Jacob Jacobsz de Wet II (Haarlem 1641/2 - Amsterdam 1697)
The Infant Hercules Strangling Serpents 1673-75
Jacob Jacobsz de Wet II (Haarlem 1641/2 - Amsterdam 1697)
The Infant Hercules Strangling Serpents 1673-75
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The Dutch artist Jacob de Wet II was brought from Amsterdam to Edinburgh in 1673 by Sir William Bruce, King’s Surveyor and Master of Works in Scotland. As part of a team of skilled British and foreign craftsmen furnishing the newly rebuilt Palace of Holyroodhouse, de Wet produced a series of decorative history paintings for the state apartments. Still in situ, these include Bathing Scene by a River (RCIN 401237), Galatea and Polyphemus (RCIN 401238), The Apotheosis of Hercules (RCIN 401239) The Infant Hercules strangling Serpents (RCIN 401240) and The Finding of Moses (RCIN 401241).
An interior with seven classically dressed females expressing amazement at the naked infant Hercules who lies in a cot strangling serpents with his left hand held aloft; classical landscape behindProvenance
Presumably commissioned by Charles II
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Medium and techniques
Oil on canvas
Measurements
153.7 x 174.5 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
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OM add-de Wet
