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Thetis Immersing her Infant Son Achilles in the River Styx to Make him Invulnerable
1794-1798
- Dating
- Date range
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- [{"notes": "600 x 1200 mm", "part": "Netto", "type": "højde", "unit": "centimeter", "value": "60"}, {"notes": "600 x 1200 mm", "part": "Netto", "type": "bredde", "unit": "centimeter", "value": "120"}, {"notes": "632 x 1297 x 40 mm", "part": "Brutto", "type": "højde", "unit": "centimeter", "value": "63.2"}, {"notes": "632 x 1297 x 40 mm", "part": "Brutto", "type": "bredde", "unit": "centimeter", "value": "129.7"}, {"notes": "632 x 1297 x 40 mm", "part": "Brutto", "type": "dybde", "unit": "centimeter", "value": "4"}]
- Collection no.
- KMS3353
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- Public Domain Mark 1.0License details
Nicolai Abildgaard. Thetis Immersing her Infant Son Achilles in the River Styx to Make him Invulnerable. Statens Museum for Kunst. Public Domain Mark 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)
About this artwork
Thetis Immersing her Infant Son Achilles in the River Styx to Make him Invulnerable — Nicolai Abildgaard. 1794-1798.
Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: .
Collection record: Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK), Copenhagen. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
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.