Jacques-Louis David - The Anger of Achilles - Google Art Project

''The Anger of Achilles'' is a painting of 1819 by

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...

in the

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. One of the last of David's history paintings, it shows the moment in Greek myth when

Agamemnon In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (; grc-gre, Ἀγαμέμνων ''Agamémnōn'') was a king of Mycenae who commanded the Greeks during the Trojan War. He was the son, or grandson, of King Atreus and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus, the husb ...

reveals to

Achilles In Greek mythology, Achilles ( ) or Achilleus ( grc-gre, Ἀχιλλεύς) was a hero of the Trojan War, the greatest of all the Greek warriors, and the central character of Homer's ''Iliad''. He was the son of the Nereid Thetis and Peleus, k ...

that he has not actually brought his daughter

Iphigenia In Greek mythology, Iphigenia (; grc, Ἰφιγένεια, , ) was a daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and thus a princess of Mycenae. In the story, Agamemnon offends the goddess Artemis on his way to the Trojan War by hunting ...

to him as a bride, but rather intends to sacrifice her in order to appease the goddess

Artemis In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Artemis (; grc-gre, Ἄρτεμις) is the goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, nature, vegetation, childbirth, care of children, and chastity. She was heavily identified wit ...

. Achilles begins to draw his sword in anger upon hearing this, while Agamemnon's wife,

Clytemnestra Clytemnestra (; grc-gre, Κλυταιμνήστρα, ''Klytaimnḗstrā'', ), in Greek mythology, was the wife of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and the twin sister of Helen of Troy. In Aeschylus' ''Oresteia'', she murders Agamemnon – said by Eu ...

, looks on in grief and sadness with her hand on her daughter's shoulder. David produced the work during his exile in

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. An 1825 copy of the painting is sometimes attributed to Michel Ghislain Stapleaux under David's direction. This copy is now in a private collection; according to

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, it is owned through a

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References

Bibliography

*Antoine Schnapper (ed.) and Arlette Sérullaz, ''Jacques-Louis David 1748–1825 : catalogue de l'exposition rétrospective Louvre-Versailles 1989–1990'', Paris, Réunion des Musées nationaux, 1989 () *Sophie Monneret, ''David et le néoclassicisme'', Paris, Terrail, 1998 () *Simon Lee, ''David'', Paris, Phaidon, 2002 () *Philippe Bordes, ''David, Empire to Exile'', New Haven, Yale University press, 2005 () *Nicolas Sainte Fare Garnot, ''Jacques-Louis David 1748–1825 : Exposition du 4 octobre 2005 au 31 janvier 2006'', Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, Chaudun, 2005 () {{DEFAULTSORT:Anger of Achilles, The Mythological paintings by Jacques-Louis David 1819 paintings Paintings in the collection of the Kimbell Art Museum Cultural depictions of Achilles Paintings based on the Iliad Agamemnon