The Loves of Paris and Helen

The Loves of Paris and Helen is a neoclassical oil painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David, completed in 1788 and measuring 1.46 by 1.81 meters. It depicts the Trojan prince Paris and Helen of Troy, the mythological lovers of Homer's Iliad, and was commissioned by the comte d'Artois, the future Charles X of France. The painting is considered a work of David's lighter, gallant phase and has been read by some historians as a veiled satire of the comte d'Artois's own conduct; its background includes caryatid figures copied from those the sculptor Jean Goujon designed, which are also displayed in the Louvre. It is held in the Louvre Museum in Paris, under accession number INV 3696. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/