# Simo and his Former Slave Sosia

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## Artwork

- Artist: [ABILDGAARD, Nicolai](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/abildgaard-nicolai-r3b088db79650e3>)
- Date: 1751-1800
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 158 x 142 cm

## Commentary

The painting depicts a scene from the ancient writer Terence&#39;s romantic comedy Andria. It is one of the four large canvases with scenes from the comedy Abildgaard created after 1800 to be placed in his residence provided at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at Charlottenborg.

## Related artworks

- [Adam and Eve](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/abildgaard-nicolai-r3b088db79650e3/adam-and-eve-r94b258dc8d7860>)
- [Culmin&#39;s Ghost Appears to his Mother](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/abildgaard-nicolai-r3b088db79650e3/culmins-ghost-appears-to-his-mother-r7f9206c60ae7a8>)
- [The Midwife Taking Leave of the Girl from Andros](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/abildgaard-nicolai-r3b088db79650e3/the-midwife-taking-leave-of-the-girl-from-andros-r37e01c9f20b2df>)
- [The Wounded Philoctetes](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/abildgaard-nicolai-r3b088db79650e3/the-wounded-philoctetes-rdb51840a537520>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)