QUELLINUS, Erasmus II
(b. 1607, Antwerpen, d. 1678, Antwerpen)

Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes

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Oil on canvas, 220 x 240 cm
Groeninge Museum, Bruges

An assistant of Rubens, the great Antwerp master, Erasmus Quellin painted this effectively lit but classicising scene showing the discovery of Achilles, disguised as a woman, by Odysseus and Diomedes.