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Heracles Saves Prometheus from the Eagle, Johann Heinrich Füssli

Heracles Saves Prometheus from the Eagle

Herakles erlegt den Adler des Prometheus (museum title)

Johann Heinrich Füssli (Swiss) (1741-1825)

Movement
Romanticism
Date
1781–1785
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
63 × 76 cm
Collection
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Rights
Public domain
Photograph
Kunsthaus de Zurich, public domain

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