The Danaides
Artist John William Waterhouse (English, 1849-1917)
Date: 1906
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland
Description
Painting illustrating the Greek mythological story of the fifty daughters of King Danaus, who were condemned to fill a leaking, or bottomless, vessel with water in Hades for killing their husbands on their wedding night.
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