# Oedipus Cursing His Son Polynices

- By: Henry Fuseli (Swiss, 1741 - 1825)
- Date: 1786
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 149.8 x 165.4 cm (59 x 65 1/8 in.) ; framed: 177.2 x 191.8 x 12.3 cm (69 3/4 x 75 1/2 x 4 13/16 in.)
- Culture: Swiss
- Credit line: Paul Mellon Collection
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.61391.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/64f98f88-fb97-44a6-8ac1-2c57f4a2f10b/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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