# Achilles with the Daughters of Lycomedes [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [QUELLINUS, Erasmus II]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 114 x 164 cm ## Commentary In this picture, Achilles, disguised as a girl, is detected by the artful Odysseus. The painting translates the ancient myth into the courtly ambience of the 17th century. The picture almost appears like a theatrical staging, with actors in exquisite costumes appearing against the backdrop of impressive sets. The work stands out for its narrative complexity, employing the refinement of Baroque rhetoric as was called for by contemporary art theory. Quellinus's interpretation of the episode evidently relies on the Daughters of Lycomedes from the Life of Achilles, an Antwerp tapestry cycle based on designs by Peter Paul Rubens \(c. 1630–35\). Quellinus treated the subject of Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes several times. ## Related artworks - [Achilles among 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]()