File:Bray Achilles discovered by Ulysses.jpg
![File:Bray Achilles discovered by Ulysses.jpg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Bray_Achilles_discovered_by_Ulysses.jpg/800px-Bray_Achilles_discovered_by_Ulysses.jpg)
Original file (1,335 × 950 pixels, file size: 193 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
![]() | This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. |
Summary
Jan de Bray: The Discovery of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes
![]() ![]() |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q541789 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Title |
The Discovery of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes
label QS:Lfr,"Achille reconnu parmi les filles de Lycomède"
label QS:Len,"The Discovery of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes"
label QS:Lpl,"Odkrycie Achillesa wśród córek Likomedesa"
label QS:Lnl,"Odysseus ontdekt Achilles temidden van de dochters van Lykomedes" . |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object type |
painting ![]() |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genre |
mythological painting ![]() |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Description | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date |
1664 date QS:P571,+1664-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions |
height: 129 cm (50.7 in); width: 179 cm (70.4 in) dimensions QS:P2048,129U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,179U174728 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q153306 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current location |
2nd floor |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accession number |
M.Ob.530 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of creation |
Haarlem ![]() |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Object history |
by 1937 date QS:P,+1937-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1937-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : art dealer, Vienna1937: acquired by the National Museum in Warsaw (MNW) |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inscriptions |
Signature and date bottom: JDBraij. 1664.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References |
RKDimages, Art-work number 2241, as Odysseus ontdekt Achilles temidden van de dochters van Lykomedes Web Gallery of Art, as The Discovery of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes. |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer |
Web Gallery of Art: ![]() ![]() reference_wga QS:P973,"http://www.wga.hu/html/b/bray/jan/lycomede.html" |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other versions |
|
Licensing
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details. |
Captions
Items portrayed in this file
depicts
image/jpeg
a0fad49574f28f358912832f40cfadaacea66cf6
197,586 byte
950 pixel
1,335 pixel
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 21:17, 8 January 2006 | ![]() | 1,335 × 950 (193 KB) | Bender235 | '''The Discovery of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes''', by Jan de Bray (1627–1697) in 1664. Oil on canvas, 129 x 179 cm. Original in Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw. |
File usage
Metadata
This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it.
If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file.
JPEG file comment | BRAY, Jan de
(b. ca. 1627, Haarlem, d. 1697, Haarlem) The Discovery of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes 1664 Oil on canvas, 129 x 179 cm Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw The subject is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses. Knowing her son was destined to die if he went to fight in the Trojan war, Thethis, a sea nymph, disguised Achilles as a woman and entrusted him to King Lycomedes, in whose palace on the isle of Scyros he lived among the king's daughters. Odysseus and other Greek chieftains were sent to fetch Achilles. They cunningly laid a heap of gifts before the girls - jewellery, clothes and other finery, but among them a sword, spear and shield. When a trumpet was sounded, Achilles instinctively snatched up the weapons and thus betrayed his identity. In the painting, Odysseus stands in the archway on the left. He has a band slung over his shoulders to support the basket containing Achilles's helmet. Achilles, disguised as a woman, stands on the right, behind a large, decorated chest draped with a costly Oriental carpet. He clasps the hilt of the sword in his right hand and rest the tip of the blade on his left hand. The other characters look on in astonishment. The elegant woman in the foreground offers him a string of pearls from the finely decorated jewellery box in an attempt to cover up his error. The austere composition, with prominent architecture and figures like statues, give the picture the appearance of a classical theatre performance.
Author: BRAY, Jan de Title: The Discovery of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes Time-line: 1651-1700 School: Dutch Form: painting Type: mythological |
---|