# Figure studies

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lombard-lambert-rf0b81f01b5020f/figure-studies-r12c44ac649e3b4>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [LOMBARD, Lambert](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lombard-lambert-rf0b81f01b5020f>)
- Date: 1501-1550
- Technique: Pen and ink on paper

## Commentary

Artists had long regarded the Hercules theme as an invitation to explore the varieties of violent gesture. Lambert Lombard, for example, sketched a series of sixteen Hercules figures - looking up in astonishment, swinging a club, collapsed on the ground.

## Related artworks

- [God the Father with Angels](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lombard-lambert-rf0b81f01b5020f/god-the-father-with-angels-r89f379450c0e67>)
- [Self-Portrait](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lombard-lambert-rf0b81f01b5020f/self-portrait-rd4b898ba7f5059>)
- [The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lombard-lambert-rf0b81f01b5020f/the-miracle-of-the-loaves-and-fishes-detail-r1b0a99c9876500>)
- [The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lombard-lambert-rf0b81f01b5020f/the-miracle-of-the-loaves-and-fishes-detail-rfdd2cfb25c58b9>)
- [The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lombard-lambert-rf0b81f01b5020f/the-miracle-of-the-loaves-and-fishes-r6b011da66f56f1>)
- [Triptych](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/lombard-lambert-rf0b81f01b5020f/triptych-r95d14a119e0693>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)