Art, literature & history
Otus and Ephialtes Holding Mars Captive
1790s
- Dating
- Within this decade
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- graphite
- Dimensions
- overall: 17 x 22.4 cm (6 11/16 x 8 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1980.45.531
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Flaxman. Otus and Ephialtes Holding Mars Captive. John Flaxman; 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:John_Flaxman,_Otus_and_Ephialtes_Holding_Mars_Captive,_1790s,_NGA_58239.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Otus and Ephialtes Holding Mars Captive — John Flaxman. 1790s.
Medium: graphite.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 17 x 22.4 cm (6 11/16 x 8 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1980.45.531. Rosenwald Collection.
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.