Edgar Degas - Alexander and Bucephalus 1861

Alexander and Bucephalus 1861
Alexander and Bucephalus
1861 115x89cm oil/canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washingon, DC, USA

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Bucephalus or Bucephalas (c. 355 BC – June 326 BC) was the horse of Alexander the Great, and one of the most famous actual horses of antiquity. Ancient accounts state that Bucephalus died after the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC, in what is now modern Pakistan, and is buried in Jalalpur Sharif outside of Jhelum, Pakistan. Another account states that Bucephalus is buried in Phalia, a town in Pakistan's Mandi Bahauddin District, which is named after him.