"Hercules and Hebe" published April 23,1933 in the American Weekly magazine painted by Edmund Dulac. Hercules was the son of Jupiter and Alcmene, a charming mortal. The Goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter, objected to his philandering. When Hercules was a baby she sent two snakes to strangle him. But the baby strangled them. Hercules grew up the world’s strongest man. Juno, still resentful, managed to make him bond servant to King Eurystheus. Hercules spent most of his life performing strong man stunts for this died because his wife was jealous and gave him a poisoned shirt.
In 1923, “Edmund Dulac, the Distinguished English Artist,” as he was billed on the covers, was contracted by the Hearst organization to paint watercolors for The American Weekly Sunday magazine. The contract lasted 30 years and Dulac painted 107 watercolors for thirteen different series until his last Arabian Nights in 1951.
Size: 9680px × 13160px
Photo credit: © Albert Seligman / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: 1934, acteon, age, american, ariadne, art, bacchus, ceyx, circe, corporation, deco, diana, dulac, echo, edmund, eurystheus, flors, folklore, glaucus, golden, greece, greek, halcyone, hearst, hebe, hercules, illustration, iris, juno, jupiter, king, magazine, man, mercury, minos, minotaur, modern, mount, mt., mythology, myths, narcissus, nymph, olympus, pomona, roman, rome, somnus, son, strong, sunday, supplement, sylla, theseus, vertumnus, watercolor, weekly, wood, zephyr, zeus
