# Hercules Fountain [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VRIES, Adriaen de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Bronze ## Commentary In the course of an international career, de Vries' services were called upon by some of the greatest art patrons of the time: the Duc de Savoie, the Emperor Rudolph II, the King of Denmark, Duke Albert von Wallenstein, and the City of Augsburg. This fountain crowned by a a symbol of Virtue - a statue of Hercules conquering the Hydra - is one of three fountains put up to mark the sixteen-hundredth anniversary of the city. These fountains represent the three estates of the free imperial town: the masters \(Augustus fountain\), the merchants \(Mercurius fountain\) and the craftsmen \(Hercules fountain\). The Hercules fountain, a monumental Italianate work, is De Vries's most significant work. The original is in the Maximilian Museum in Augsburg. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of the Turkish War in Hungary]() - [Apollo]() - [Apollo]() - [Bacchus Discovering Ariadne on Naxos]() - [Bust of Emperor Rudolf II]() - [Bust of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II]() - [Bust of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II]() - [Cain killing Abel]() - [Christ at the Column.]() - [Gladiator]() - [Hercules and the Centaur Fighting]() - [Hercules Fountain \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()