The Sacrifice of Polyxena - As recounted by the Roman poet Ovid, Polyxena is led to her death at the sacrificial altar to appease the ghost of the hero Achilles. Her mother tries to restrain her while the soldier Neoptolemus raises his sword. The infant holding a chest of incense and the austere priest complete this composition. Charles Le Brun, 1647

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