The Loves of Paris and Helen

The Loves of Paris and Helen is a 1788 painting by Jacques-Louis David, showing Helen of Troy and Paris from Homer's Iliad. It is now in the Louvre Museum.

It was the result of a commission from the comte d'Artois. It shows David in his 'galante' phase and was interpreted as a satire on the manners of the comte d'Artois. The caryatids in the background are copies of those by Jean Goujon in the Louvre.

External links

• http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=22499
• Étienne Coche de La Ferté and Julien Guey, "Analyse archéologique et psychologique d'un tableau de David : Les Amours de Pâris et d'Hélène", Revue archéologique, vol. XL, 1952, p. 129-61

Jacques-Louis David Works 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) Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki (1780) Belisarius Begging for Alms (1781) Christ on the Cross (1782) Oath of the Horatii (1784) 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) The Death of Marat (1793) Self-portrait (1794) Psyche Abandoned (1795) The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799) Portrait of Madame Récamier (1800) Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass (1800-1805) Portrait of Pope Pius VII (1805) The Coronation of Napoleon (1807) Leonidas at Thermopylae (1814) Napoleon in His Study (1812) Mars Being Disarmed by Venus (1824)