RHENIUM OF GUIDO
Heracles, fighting with Akheloyem, 162 – 1621.
Canvas, 26 x 192 cm. It is ordered in 1617 Ferdinand Gonzaga, duke Mantuansky, for a country house of the Favourite near Mantua. Four patterns given on this sharp turn represent an allegory of deification of family of Gonzaga. Charles I’s collection; INV is acquired by Louis XIV at Eberhard Jabach in 1662. 536 (MN)