Heracles Defeating Achelous
- Other titles
- Acheloüs se metaporphose en Taureau pour Combattre avec Hercule, et est vaincu
- Date
- 1767-1771
- Object type
- Technique
- etching, roulette, burin
- Material
- laid paper
- Dimensions
- mount: 22,6 x 16,6 [full sheet: 18,7 x 12,8; composition: 12,8 x 8,7] cm
- Marks and inscriptions
- along the bottom, below the composition, on left: Car Eisen in. et. del.; on right: J.F.Rousseau Sculp.; in the middle: Acheloüs se metaporphose en Taureau pour | Combattre avec Hercule, et est vaincu,; impression pasted in eighteeth-century paper mount, surrounded by a pale green watercolour border, black ink lines and glued gold stripe; top right in pen and brown ink: XC.
- Place of Origin
- Paris (France)
- Owner
- The Royal Łazienki
- Museum number
- ŁKr 228
