The Abduction of Dejanira, at center in the arms of the centaur Nessus, Hercules at right shooting the centaur with an arrow, Achelous reclining with his cornucopia at lower right

ca. 1530–61

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; first state of three
Dimensions: Plate: 9 13/16 × 15 1/2 in. (25 × 39.3 cm) Sheet: 15 1/8 in. × 21 in. (38.4 × 53.3 cm)
Collection no.: 2005.377.70
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Battista Franco. The Abduction of Dejanira, at center in the arms of the centaur Nessus, Hercules at right shooting the centaur with an arrow, Achelous reclining with his cornucopia at lower right. Battista Franco; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2005. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Abduction of Dejanira, at center in the arms of the centaur Nessus, Hercules at right shooting the centaur with an arrow, Achelous reclining with his cornucopia at lower right — Battista Franco. ca. 1530–61.

Medium: Etching; first state of three. Dimensions: Plate: 9 13/16 × 15 1/2 in. (25 × 39.3 cm) Sheet: 15 1/8 in. × 21 in. (38.4 × 53.3 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Kenneth Grebinar, 2005.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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