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Nessus and Dejanira in Four Poses, and the Dying Nessus
1830s
- Dating
- Within this decade
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white on blue wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 31.7 × 49.1 cm (12 1/2 × 19 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.196.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Hippolyte Lalaisse. Nessus and Dejanira in Four Poses, and the Dying Nessus. Hippolyte Lalaisse; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hippolyte_Lalaisse,_Nessus_and_Dejanira_in_Four_Poses,_and_the_Dying_Nessus,_1830s,_NGA_204659.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Nessus and Dejanira in Four Poses, and the Dying Nessus — Hippolyte Lalaisse. 1830s.
Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white on blue wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 31.7 × 49.1 cm (12 1/2 × 19 5/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.196.2. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.