The Abduction of Deianira
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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34461
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drawing
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normalized
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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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en
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1
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1836 |
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Medium
oil on canvas
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