Why it matters
Hercules fights the Nemean lion in a rocky setting. It belongs to a series of ten Labours of Hercules that Philip IV commissioned for the Hall of Realms in the Buen Retiro Palace.
Did you know?
- Zurbarán painted it in 1634.
- The rocky setting follows a woodcut by Barthel Beham.
- The whole series is now in the Prado.
Based on the Wikipedia article Hercules Fighting the Nemean Lion (Zurbarán) (CC BY-SA 4.0).
