Courtyard of the Farnese Palace in Rome with the Hercules Farnese

Courtyard of the Farnese Palace in Rome with the Hercules Farnese IMG

This view of the Farnese courtyard by the French artist Louis Chays (ca. 1740–1810) shows visitors admiring the colossal sculpture of Hercules, which is shown in rear view, whilst artists draw from the examples of antique sculpture in the Farnese collection.

Blick in den Hof des Palazzo Farnese mit dem Herkules, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white gouache on paper, 43.4cm x 53.4cm, 1775, artist: Louis Chays (1740–1810); source: Biblioteca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, https://foto.biblhertz.it/document/obj/08116221, Creative Commons Some Rights Reserved Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.