# Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [QUELLINUS, Erasmus II]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 220 x 240 cm ## Commentary Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes c. 1643 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. In the 1640s, the architecture in the background of Quellinus's paintings acquires a remarkable classicist stamps. This is very noticeable in works like the Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes. ## Related artworks - [Achilles with the Daughters of Lycomedes]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Artemisia]() - [Birth of the Virgin]() - [Cupid on a Dolphin]() - [Portrait of a Young Boy]() - [Saul and David \(detail\)]() - [Still-Life in an Architectural Setting]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()