The Abduction of Deianira

ca. 1730-1767 (Baroque)

64.7 cm 42.2 cm

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In a popular story involving the loves of the gods from Greco-Roman mythology, the centaur Nessus escapes through the Euenus River with the abducted Deianira, the wife of Hercules, who comes to her rescue. Clad in a lion's skin, he is about to shoot the arrow which will kill t...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 794, as Nicolas Poussin]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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