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The Wounded Philoctetes is a painting by the Danish painter, N. A. Abildgaard. It was painted in 1775.
Having received a five-year scholarship from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Abildgaard stayed in Rome where he painted his interpretation of the hero Philoctetes who was wounded by a snake and left behind on a Greek island by his brothers in arms during the Trojan War.
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