HERCULE DOMPTÉ PAR L'AMOUR. Ce dieu malin qui dans sa course triomphale Soumet tout; Rois, Pasteurs, Héros et Députés; D'Alcide interrompit les exploits redoutés Pour enchaîner aux pieds d'Omphale. Poésies galantes de Mr. Sauzet.

Abstract

Hercules is being driven by Cupid to fall in love. During the 1840's, a quarrel between painters of the classic and romantic schools had fully flared up. Delacroix asked the "loaded" question: "Who is going to liberate us from the old Greeks?" Daumier succeeded to answer it his own way by showing historic personalities such as Hercules, Pygmalion or Agamemnon in absurd situations.