Why it matters
Theseus is about to deliver the final blow to the centaur Eurytion, who tried to abduct a bride at a wedding feast. Commissioned in honour of Napoleon, the group was later bought by the Austrian emperor for a temple in Vienna's Volksgarten.
Did you know?
- It dates from 1805.
- The Napoleonic Italian Republic commissioned it for ten thousand gold sequins.
- It moved to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in 1891.
Based on the French Wikipedia article Thésée et le Centaure (CC BY-SA 4.0).
