File:Workshop of Léonard Limosin - Salt Cellar with the Life of Hercules - Walters 44362.jpg

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Salt Cellar with the Life of Hercules   (  )
Artist	Workshop of Léonard Limousin  (1505–)     Alternative names Leonard Limousin, Léonard Limosin Description French miniaturist and goldsmith Date of birth/death circa 1505 date QS:P,+1505-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 circa 1575 date QS:P,+1575-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 Location of birth/death Limoges Limoges Work location Paris (1548–1572)  Authority file : Q1879480 VIAF: 5008249 ISNI: 0000000080842136 ULAN: 500019824 LCCN: nr95003313 WGA: l/limosin/leonard WorldCat artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1774,Q1879480 or Workshop of Pierre Reymond  (1513–1584)     Alternative names Reymond Description French enamelist Date of birth/death circa 1513 date QS:P,+1513-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 after 1584 date QS:P,+1584-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1584-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 Authority file : Q7192420 VIAF: 1074273 ISNI: 0000000083499513 ULAN: 500024208 WGA: r/reymond GND: 12880789X artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1774,Q7192420
Title	Salt Cellar with the Life of Hercules
Description	English: Salt cellars are vessels for serving salt, an expensive spice during this period, as part of a formal dinner setting. In the depression for the salt is an idealized image of Deianira, Hercules's wife, with the inscription reading, "I am the beautiful Deianira." A parallel image of Hercules is on the bottom. On the sides are painted scenes from his life. Visible here are representations of Hercules strangling the Nemean lion, struggling with Achelous (a suitor for Deianira) in the shape of a bull, and killing a creature that while identified as Cerberus, the three-headed dog from Hades, looks like the Lernean hydra that was described as having many heads, each on a long neck.
Date	after 1535 date QS:P571,+1535-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1535-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 (Renaissance era QS:P2348,Q4692 )
Medium	painted enamel on copper
Dimensions	height: 8 cm (3.1 in); diameter: 10.1 cm (3.9 in) dimensions QS:P2048,8U174728 dimensions QS:P2386,10.1U174728
Collection	Walters Art Museum    Native name Walters Art Museum Location Baltimore, United States of America Coordinates 39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W   Established 1934  Website thewalters.org Authority file : Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 000000040373611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-6 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number	44.362
Place of creation	Limoges, France
Object history	Didier-Petit Collection Sale (?), Paris, March 15, 1843, and following days, lot 122 [if this salt is indeed the piece in this sale it had a companion piece, lot 121, with the heads of Paris and Tibea in the cavities (ie., Pyramus and Thisbe)] Seligmann Bros., Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Credit line	Acquired by Henry Walters
Source	Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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