Not on display
- Artist
- Thomas Stothard 1755–1834
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 610 × 686 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
- Reference
- N00322
Display caption
Stothard was one of the most prolific of the illustrators of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He collaborated with Blake and Flaxman and represents a gentler, sweeter manifestation of Neo-classicism. Here he tackles a warlike subject that Flaxman might have chosen, but in the rich colour and sinuous complexity of his design betrays a debt to Rubens as well as to the Greeks.
Gallery label, August 2004
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