# Hercules and the Centaur Fighting [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VRIES, Adriaen de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Pen, brown ink, light brown wash, 142 x 167 mm ## Commentary Hercules and the Centaur Fighting c. 1615 Pen, brown ink, light brown wash, 142 x 167 mm Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest Six of the small drawing oeuvre of Adriaen de Vries feature Hercules, who in general was revered as the personification of physical strength and courage. During the Renaissance he became the hero conquering evil. This drawing might have recorded one of the views of a free-standing sculptural group. ## 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 Fountain \(detail\)]() - [Hercules Fountain \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()