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Jacques-Louis David · 1819

The Anger of Achilles

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Achilles, helmeted and half turned away, reaches for his sword while Agamemnon points toward the young Iphigenia in white and her mother Clytemnestra looks on in grief. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth.

Up to 16.8 × 12 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

16.8″12″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of The Anger of Achilles

One of David's last history paintings, made during his exile in Brussels in 1819. It shows the moment when Agamemnon reveals that he has not brought his daughter Iphigenia to Achilles as a bride but intends to sacrifice her to appease the goddess Artemis; Achilles begins to draw his sword in anger. An 1825 copy, sometimes attributed to Michel Ghislain Stapleaux working under David's direction, is in a private collection.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity toward classical austerity, severity, and heightened feeling, which harmonized with the moral climate of the final years of the Ancien Régime.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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