# Hercules Raising his Club: Study for “Hercules and Cacus”, in 18th-century France

François Le Moyne painted this in 1717, aged 29. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Our note:

> Hercules swings his club high, his muscular body modelled in black chalk with white highlights on buff paper.

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## The work

- Date: 1717
- Medium: Black chalk, with white chalk, on buff laid paper, laid down on laid paper
- Dimensions: 41 × 24.7 cm (16 3/16 × 9 3/4 in.)
- Type: Drawing and Watercolor
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2019.880
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[François Le Moyne](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/francois-le-moyne), French, 1688–1737

3 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by François Le Moyne](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/francois-le-moyne?hang=749) (3 works)
- [More French eighteenth century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/french-eighteenth-century?hang=749) (35 works)
- [The 18th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/18?hang=749) (347 works)

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