Hercules at Rest and Hebe 15 oz art mugs side by side: Perrier’s Farnese Hercules etching on the black-handled mug, Carolus-Duran’s Hebe on the pink-handled mug

Hercules & Hebe — The Morning After Olympus

$44.00
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Hercules at Rest and Hebe 15 oz art mugs side by side: Perrier’s Farnese Hercules etching on the black-handled mug, Carolus-Duran’s Hebe on the pink-handled mug
  • Hercules at Rest and Hebe 15 oz art mugs side by side: Perrier’s Farnese Hercules etching on the black-handled mug, Carolus-Duran’s Hebe on the pink-handled mug
  • François Perrier, The Farnese Hercules seen from behind, 1638 etching: the full plate shown flat
  • Carolus-Duran, Hébé, 1874, oil on canvas: the full painting shown flat, Hebe pouring from a ewer as she rides an eagle
  • Hercules at Rest 15 oz art mug with black handle, Perrier etching of the Farnese Hercules seen from behind
  • Hebe 15 oz art mug with pink handle, Carolus-Duran’s 1874 painting of Hebe pouring from a ewer on an eagle
  • Hercules at Rest and Hebe 15 oz art mugs side by side: Perrier’s Farnese Hercules etching on the black-handled mug, Carolus-Duran’s Hebe on the pink-handled mug
  • François Perrier, The Farnese Hercules seen from behind, 1638 etching: the full plate shown flat
  • Carolus-Duran, Hébé, 1874, oil on canvas: the full painting shown flat, Hebe pouring from a ewer as she rides an eagle
  • Hercules at Rest 15 oz art mug with black handle, Perrier etching of the Farnese Hercules seen from behind
  • Hebe 15 oz art mug with pink handle, Carolus-Duran’s 1874 painting of Hebe pouring from a ewer on an eagle
Hercules & Hebe — The Morning After Olympus

Hercules & Hebe — The Morning After Olympus

$44.00

HERCULES & HEBE
The Morning After Olympus · Old Heaven Mug Pair

He has put down his burdens. She has brought some color to the proceedings.

Hercules at Rest and Hebe in pink make a companionable pair: a little grandeur, a little tenderness, and two good reasons to linger at the table.

One for the person who carries too much. One for the person who makes the morning worth arriving at. Decide between yourselves which is which.

Give them for a shared kitchen, a new beginning, or an anniversary that deserves something more interesting than matching initials. Keep both if your household arrangements favor variety.

Two mugs. Separate personalities. Excellent company.

OLD HEAVEN
Leave the labors until after breakfast.

INSPIRED BY
Hebe, daughter of Zeus and Hera, is the Greek goddess of youth and cupbearer of the gods. In Hesiod’s Theogony and the Odyssey she becomes the wife of Heracles after he is made immortal and taken up to Olympus. François Perrier’s 1638 etching shows the Farnese Hercules from behind, leaning on his club, the golden apples of the Hesperides held behind his back; Carolus-Duran’s Hébé (1874) shows her pouring from a ewer as she rides an eagle.

Artwork: François Perrier, The Farnese Hercules, seen from behind [plate 4], 1638, etching, from Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of David H. McDonnell, 2017.126.10. Public domain.
Artwork: Carolus-Duran, Hébé, 1874, oil on canvas. Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, P 551. Public domain.
Photograph: Sailko, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0; cropped and resized.
© 2026 Shawn Neville

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