Shop art print and framed art La déification d'Enée by Charles Le Brun

The Deification of Aeneas is a work by the painter Charles Le Brun, produced between 1642 and 1645, and held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. The work entered the museum in 1953 via the John W. Tempest collection. The work illustrates a passage from Book XIV of the Metamorphoses by the Latin poet Ovid, which recounts an episode in the life of the Greek hero Aeneas. Aeneas is shown kneeling before his mother Venus as he prepares to face King Turnus in a single combat, from which he will emerge victorious. Holding the nectar and ambrosia in her hands, Venus is preparing to bestow on her son the immortality of the gods. At rest, observing the scene, a River God has completed his task of cleansing Aeneas of all that is mortal in him. He strokes the head of a putto. Behind him, two nymphs emerge from the forest and approach the group. Two other putti, to the left and right of the scene, are playing with Aeneas' weapons, forged by Vulcan in anticipation of his battle. The work has long been attributed to Nicolas Poussin, who himself dealt with the subject in Venus showing her arms to Aeneas, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in [...]

 

This artwork is a drawing from the classical period. It belongs to the classicism style.

 

« La déification d'Enée » is kept at Louvre, Paris, France.

 

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