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Jules Elie Delaunay
(13th Jun, 1828 - 5th Sep, 1891)
Mort de Nessus
Credit:
Photo (C) RMN-Grand Palais / Gérard Blot
Museum of Fine Arts of Nantes
http://www.museedesbeauxarts.nantes.fr/
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Keywords:
river
Deianira
kidnapping
centaur (mythology)
mythological scene
Nessus
Hercules (mythology)
bowman
ford (landscape)
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About the artwork
Title:
Mort de Nessus
Periods:
19th century
contemporary period from 1789 until 1914
XIXth century
Techniques:
oil on canvas
Dimensions:
950 x 1260
Inventory number:
INV916
Location:
Museum of Fine Arts of Nantes
About the author(s)
Author:
Jules Elie Delaunay
Born:
13th Jun, 1828
Dead:
5th Sep, 1891
Country:
France
See more about this author on Wikipedia:
Jules-Élie Delaunay
(French:
[dəlonɛ]
; June 13, 1828 – September 5, 1891) was a French academic painter. He was born at Nantes in the Loire-Atlantique
département
of France. Delaunay studied under Flandrin, and at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris under Lamothe. He worked in the classicist manner of Ingres until, after winning the Prix de Rome, he went to Italy; in 1856, and abandoned the ideal of Raphaelesque perfection for the sincerity and severity of the quattrocentists. After his return…
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