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Jan de Bray: The Discovery of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes

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Alternative names	Jan de Braij, Jan Salomonsz. de Braij, Jan Salomonsz. de Bray
Description	Dutch painter, drawer, printmaker and architect
Date of birth/death	circa 1627 date QS:P,+1627-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902	4 April 1697 (buried)
Location of birth/death	Haarlem	Amsterdam
Work period	from 1648 until 1697 date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1648-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1697-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location	Haarlem (1648–1689), Amsterdam (1688–1697)
Authority file	: Q541789 VIAF: 14727448 ISNI: 0000000117452212 ULAN: 500032401 LCCN: nr2005027429 WGA: b/bray/jan WorldCat

Title

The Discovery of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes .

Object type

painting

Genre

mythological painting

Description

Achilles on Skyros

Date

1664

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 129 cm (50.7 in); width: 179 cm (70.4 in)

Collection

National Museum in Warsaw

	Native name	Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie
	Location	Warsaw
	Coordinates	52° 13′ 54″ N, 21° 01′ 29″ E
	Established	20 May 1862
	Website	www.mnw.art.pl
	Authority file	: Q153306 VIAF: 155350218 ISNI: 0000000122540874 LCCN: n50052919 NLA: 36307256 GND: 1008386-8 WorldCat

Current location

2^nd floor

Accession number

M.Ob.530

Place of creation

Haarlem

Object history

by 1937: art dealer, Vienna
1937: 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.

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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.

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Author: BRAY, Jan de Title: The Discovery of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes Time-line: 1651-1700 School: Dutch Form: painting

Type: mythological

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