© Leighton House Museum
Hercules Wrestling with Death for the Body of Alcestes
Artist: Lord Frederic Leighton (1830 - 1896)
Location: Leighton House Museum
Date: 1869 - 1871
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 19 x 37 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £715 (Total: £9,430)
Vendor: Christie's
Review number: 3928 (1993)
Provenance:
Ernest Brown & Philips, London, Christie's 5/3/93 lot 94.
Description:
According to Greek mythology, Alcestis, wife of Admetus, was willing to sacrifice herself so that her husband, who had angered Artemis, could live. In Euripedes's play, 'Hercules Furens', Hercules, a guest at Admetus's palace at the time of his wife's death, goes after Death and wrestles with him for the body of Alcestis and wins her back.
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