Shop art print and framed art Détail de Les Amours de Pâris et Hélène by Jacques-Louis David
Subjects : Mythology
Keywords : Helen, Paris myth, bare, couple, detail, love
(Ref : 92828) © RMN /Christian Jean
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Détail de Les Amours de Pâris et Hélène... OF Jacques-Louis David
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Détail de Les Amours de Pâris et Hélène
The Loves of Paris and Helen is a 1788 oil-on-canvas painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David, showing Helen of Troy and Paris from Homer's Iliad. It is now in the Louvre Museum.
The painting was the result of a commission from the comte d'Artois. It shows David in his 'galante' phase and was interpreted as a satire on the manners of the comte d'Artois. The caryatids in the background are copies of those by Jean Goujon in the [...]
This artwork is a painting from the classical period. It belongs to the neoclassicism style.
« Détail de Les Amours de Pâris et Hélène » is kept at Louvre, Paris, France.