Plate with Hercules, Nessus, and Deianira

1525-1535 (Renaissance)

29.6 cm 4 cm

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The composition featured on this plate originates from the Roman poet Ovid’s (43 BCE—17 AD) Metamorphoses (8 CE, Book 9: 101-133), in which the demi-god Hercules shoots the centaur Nessus with an arrow, preventing him from abducting his wife Deianeria. On the right, Hercules p...

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Seligmann, Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, May 11, 1908, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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