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Jean Lemaire
Achilles Discovered Among the Daughters of Lycomedescirca 1640-1645

Not on view
Oil painting, narrative scene with six classically dressed figures under a grand dark marble portico with coffered vault, Corinthian columns, and ruined stone buildings beyond

Jean Lemaire, Achilles Discovered Among the Daughters of Lycomedes, circa 1640-1645, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, William Randolph Hearst Collection, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Jean Lemaire
France, 1598-1659
Title
Achilles Discovered Among the Daughters of Lycomedes
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1640-1645
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 61 1/4 × 50 1/2 in. (155.58 × 128.27 cm) Frame: 67 × 56 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (170.18 × 143.51 × 6.35 cm)
Credit Line
William Randolph Hearst Collection
Accession Number
49.17.16
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Rosenberg, Pierre. France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982.
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.