Oedipus at Colonus, Cursing his Son Polynices

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Henry Fuseli (Swiss, Zürich 1741–1825 London)
Date: 1777
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, traces of black chalk underdrawing
Dimensions: sheet: 10 3/16 x 13 1/2 in. (25.8 x 34.3 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund and Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2012
Accession no.: 2012.241

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