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Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides

painting by Peter Paul Rubens

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ3731238 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides is a 1638 painting by Peter Paul Rubens. It measures 246 cm by 168.5 cm and is now in the Sabauda Gallery in Turin. It shows Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides and forms part of a pair with the same artist's Deianira Listens to Fame.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides” as painting by Peter Paul Rubens. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hercules, Garden and Hesperides.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1638—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1638-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hercules, Garden and Hesperides providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides”, the useful work is to connect “painting by Peter Paul Rubens” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3731238. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1638.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.