A Capriccio of the Horse Tamers

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A Capriccio of the Horse Tamers

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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki

Description

pencil with blue and grey wash 466 x 310 mm - Fuseli depicts Castor and Pollux (the Horse Tamers or Dioscuri) as they appear in the sculpture that stands on Monte Quirinale in Rome. Twin sons of Leda and Zeus and brothers of Helen of Troy, they sailed with Jason on the Argo. Granted immortality by Zeus, Pollux asks the same for Castor. The two ...

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Date created

circa 1810-circa 1815

Creator

Henry Fuseli

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https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artwork/3333

Related subjects

nudes / classicism / Neoclassical/European / Drawing

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