Ixion and Nephele

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Title

Ixion and Nephele

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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Collection

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Description

pencil with brown, grey and pink wash 267 x 203 mm - P.C. (Purser's Cross) Jul 16.09 The subject is taken from Pindar’s Pythian, Ode II lines 21–89. When Ixion tries to seduce Hera, the wife of Zeus, the latter transforms Nephele the cloud-goddess into a replica of his wife and Ixion makes love to her instead. Centaurus, the product of their uni...

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Date created

1809

Creator

Henry Fuseli

URL

https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artwork/3308

Related subjects

nudes / mythology / myths / classicism / lovers / Neoclassical/European / Drawing

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