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| Giuseppe Bonito Portrait of Infante Carlos Antonio as Hercules ca. 1750 oil on canvas Palacio Real, Madrid |
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| Peter Paul Rubens after Michelangelo Young Hercules ca. 1601-1608 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Hercules ca. 1650 drawing (study for tapestry) Musée du Louvre |
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| Marco Benefial Figure Study for Hercules ca. 1740 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié Farnese Hercules before 1784 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Pompeo Pedemonte Design for Triumphal Arch with Twelve Labors of Hercules ca. 1540-56 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Giuseppe Baldrighi Hercules freeing Prometheus 1759 oil on canvas Galleria Nazionale di Parma |
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| Michel Corneille the Younger Pillars of Hercules ca. 1660-70 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari) Hercules and Antaeus before 1640 drawing (study for fresco) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Hercules and the Nemean Lion ca. 1650-60 drawing (study for vault fresco, L'hôtel Lambert, Paris) Musée du Louvre |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Hercules battling the Nemean Lion ca. 1615 drawing Musée du Louvre |
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| François Lemoyne Hercules and Cacus 1717 drawing (modello for painting) Musée du Louvre |
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| Cavaliere d'Arpino (Giuseppe Cesari) Hercules defeating Cacus ca. 1594-95 drawing (study for fresco, Palazzo Verospi, Rome) Musée du Louvre |
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| Raffaellino da Reggio (Raffaele Motta) and Lorenzo Sabatini Hercules and Cacus 1573 oil on plaster (vault decoration) Sala Ducale, Palazzo Apostolico, Vatican |
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| Pellegrino Tibaldi Hercules on the Pyre before 1596 drawing (study for chimneybreast fresco) Musée du Louvre |
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| Charles Le Brun Apotheosis of Hercules ca. 1650-60 drawing (study for vault fresco, L'hôtel Lambert, Paris) Musée du Louvre |
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| Jean-Pierre Hoüel Ruins of the Temple of Hercules at Agrigento ca. 1776 gouache on paper Musée du Louvre |
from The Force of Eloquence
A token of bronze, long out of currency,
Vivifies an impossible worn world
Of speech constricted into other terms:
An equilibrium of gift and threat
Moulded in eternal breathless appearance.
– Thomas Kinsella (1962)