Fountain with Atlas and Hercules, Luigi Righetti, Italian, 1780 - 1819, Charles Le Brun, French, 1619–1690, Pen and ink, brush and gray, black wash on light blue paper, Horizontal rectangle. The figure of Hercules sitting on top of a rock, receives the globe from the crowned Atlas standing beside him at left. The signs of the stars and of the Zodiac decorate the globe's surface. Water pours from the globe and from between the stones at the base of the fountain. Two framing lines., Rome, Italy, 1799, sculpture, Drawing

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