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painting (oil): ["Hercules Vanquishing Diomedes"]
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Commissioned c 1638-39 by Cardinal Richelieu for a Chimney in the Palais Cardinal, completed about 1641; royal collection (in the apartment de la Reine at the Palais Royal (Cardinal) about 1655; London 1793, sold with the paintings of the collection of the Duc D'Orleans; sale of the collection of J Maitland, London, Christies 30 July 1831; Donation by Colonel C J Wright, The Bank, Nottingham 1893 from: Richelieu: Art and Power, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 2002.
Title: painting (oil): ["Hercules Vanquishing Diomedes"]
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Commissioned c 1638-39 by Cardinal Richelieu for a Chimney in the Palais Cardinal, completed about 1641; royal collection (in the apartment de la Reine at the Palais Royal (Cardinal) about 1655; London 1793, sold with the paintings of the collection of the Duc D'Orleans; sale of the collection of J Maitland, London, Christies 30 July 1831; Donation by Colonel C J Wright, The Bank, Nottingham 1893 from: Richelieu: Art and Power, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 2002.
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