The Anger of Achilles

The Anger of Achilles is an oil-on-canvas painting of 1819 by the French artist Jacques-Louis David. It is in the collection of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.

One of the last of David's history paintings, it shows the moment in Greek myth when Agamemnon reveals to Achilles that he has not actually brought his daughter Iphigenia to him as a bride, but rather intends to sacrifice her in order to appease the goddess Artemis. Achilles begins to draw his sword in anger upon hearing this, while Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra, looks on in grief and sadness with her hand on her daughter's shoulder.

David produced the work during his exile in Brussels. An 1825 copy of the painting is sometimes^[1] attributed to Michel Ghislain Stapleaux under David's direction.^{[citation needed]} This copy is now in a private collection; according to ICIJ, it is owned through a British Virgin Islands-registered company by Russian media manager Konstantin Ernst.^[2]

See also

• List of paintings by Jacques-Louis David

References

Bibliography

• Antoine Schnapper (ed.) and Arlette Sérullaz, Jacques-Louis David 1748–1825 : catalogue de l'exposition rétrospective Louvre-Versailles 1989–1990, Paris, Réunion des Musées nationaux, 1989 (ISBN 2711823261)
• Sophie Monneret, David et le néoclassicisme, Paris, Terrail, 1998 (ISBN 2879391865)
• Simon Lee, David, Paris, Phaidon, 2002 (ISBN 0714891053)
• Philippe Bordes, David, Empire to Exile, New Haven, Yale University press, 2005 (ISBN 0-300-12346-9)
• Nicolas Sainte Fare Garnot, Jacques-Louis David 1748–1825 : Exposition du 4 octobre 2005 au 31 janvier 2006, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, Chaudun, 2005 (ISBN 2-35039-012-8)

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Paintings

• List of works
• Portrait of François Buron (1769)
• Jupiter and Antiope (1771)
• Minerva Fighting Mars (1771)
• Diana and Apollo Killing Niobe's Children (1772)
• The Death of Seneca (1773)
• Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus' Disease (1774)
• The Funeral Games of Patroclus (1778)
• Saint Jerome Hears the Trumpet of the Last Judgment (1779)
• Saint Roch Interceding with the Virgin for the Plague-Stricken (1780)
• Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki (1780)
• Belisarius Begging for Alms (1781)
• Christ on the Cross (1782)
• Andromache Mourning Hector (1783)
• Portrait of Alphonse Leroy (1783)
• Oath of the Horatii (1784)
• The Vestal Virgin (c. 1787)
• The Death of Socrates (1787)
• Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife (1788)
• The Loves of Paris and Helen (1788)
• The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons (1789)
• Portrait of Madame Pastoret (1791)
• Lycurgus of Sparta (1791)
• Portrait of Philippe-Laurent de Joubert (c. 1792)
• Portrait of Madame Marie-Louise Trudaine (1792, unfinished)
• The Death of Marat (1793)
• The Last Moments of Michel Lepeletier (1793, lost)
• The Death of Young Bara (1794, incomplete)
• The Tennis Court Oath (1794, incomplete)
• Self-Portrait (1794)
• Portrait of Pierre Seriziat (1795)
• Psyche Abandoned (1795)
• The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799)
• Portrait of Madame Récamier (1800)
• Portrait of Cooper Penrose (1802)
• Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass (1800–1805)
• Portrait of Pope Pius VII (1805)
• Napoleon in Imperial Costume (1805)
• The Coronation of Napoleon (1807)
• Sappho and Phaon (1809)
• The Distribution of the Eagle Standards (1810)
• Portrait of comte Antoine Français de Nantes (1811)
• Napoleon in His Study (1812)
• Leonidas at Thermopylae (1814)
• Cupid and Psyche (1817)
• The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis (1818)
• The Anger of Achilles (1819)
• Mars Being Disarmed by Venus (1824)

Related

• Marguerite Charlotte Pécoul (wife)
• Neoclassicism

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