Hector Calling Up Paris to a Battle

Hector Summoning Paris to Battle is an oil on canvas painting by Angelica Kauffman, from 1775. It is held in the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg. It shows a scene from the Iliad, with Paris sitting on a chair in the foreground with his bow at his feet, Helen of Troy and servants to the right and an armoured Hector with a lance to the left.

It is signed at middle left Angelica Kaufmann pinx. Anno 1775, with the number 2894 (its Hermitage catalogue number) at bottom right in red paint. Two other autograph versions survive, both in private collections, one dating to 1793 and the other undated. A historic oil on canvas copy of the work by an unknown artist was put on auction at Berlin Lepke on 19 November 1932.

The Hermitage work's history before 1782 is unclear. That year it was still in the artist's studio in London, where an engraving was produced of it by Gavriil Skorodumov, a membe…

摘自英文维基百科「Hector Summoning Paris to Battle」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。