Oedipus at Colonus, Cursing his Son Polynices

1777

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, traces of black chalk underdrawing
Dimensions: sheet: 10 3/16 x 13 1/2 in. (25.8 x 34.3 cm)
Collection no.: 2012.241
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Henry Fuseli. Oedipus at Colonus, Cursing his Son Polynices. Henry Fuseli; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund and Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2012. 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

Oedipus at Colonus, Cursing his Son Polynices — Henry Fuseli. 1777.

Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, traces of black chalk underdrawing. Dimensions: sheet: 10 3/16 x 13 1/2 in. (25.8 x 34.3 cm).

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

Credit line: Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund and Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2012.

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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