Nessus Abducting Deianira

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by Metropolitan Museum of Art
published on 24 July 2014

Nessus Abducting Deianira by Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1814 CE. The centaur Nessus tries to abduct Deianira, Hercules' wife, only to be slain by Hercules' poison arrow.

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