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The Death of Valder
Danish: Balders Død
ArtistChristoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
Year1817 (1817)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions142 cm × 178.3 cm (56 in × 70.2 in)
LocationRoyal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen

The Death of Balder (Danish: Balders Død) is an 1817 oil-on-canvas painting by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, depicting the well-known, eponymous legend from Norse mythology in which Balder is killed by a mistletoe arrow. Eckersberg's admission painting for admission into the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' Academy Council, it now hangs in Charlottenborg Palace on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen.

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