Copper printing plate depicting Commodus in the guise of Hercules, plate number 5 from François Perrier 1638 book Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum.
François Perrier known as the Burgundian, was a pupil of Charle Le Burn. He produced the first publications on ancient Roman sculpture and introduced Paris the Roman Baroque.
Rome 1638
A print produced by this plate is held in the British Museum
