Hercules offers a sacrifice to Diana

Engraving, part of a set of 12 mythological scenes, created by Etienne Delaune in Strasbourg in 1573. Each scene is presented inside an oval frame made up of two thin ovals, which contains an inscription for the scene. In this scene, Hercules stands next to an altar with the dead body of a deer, set on fire, and offers the horns, which he holds high on one arm, to Diana, standing in the background. According to one version of the Hind of Ceryneia, Hercules consecrated the golden horns of the doe in a temple dedicated to Diana. The fact that Delaune chose to represent this not so well known, rather isolated version of the story is important, for it insists on the piety of Hercules, and on the inherent association between piety and virtue. The figure of Diana in the background is similar to other prints by Delaune, one of them executed in Paris, and the other in Germany in 1573.