Aeneas Going to Battle, Gerard de Lairesse, 1667

Aeneas Going to Battle, Gerard de Lairesse, 1667

etching, h 304mm × w 387mm More details

De Lairesse’s subject matter was frequently highly idiosyncratic. This time he chose a rarely portrayed scene in the Aeneid, Vergil’s epic poem about the Trojan Aeneas. The goddess Venus, Aeneas’ mother, enjoins her son from a cloud to wage war against the Greeks. Desperate, his wife Creusa and son Ascanius, try to stop him. To no avail, naturally.

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