Art Institute of Chicago
Chryses Imploring the Help of Apollo, from Iliad, Book I
Johan Tobias Sergel
- Date
- 1765/66
- Medium
- Black chalk on off-white laid paper, tipped onto wove paper
- Culture
- Sweden
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
This drawing by Sweden’s most important Neoclassical sculptor and draftsman depicts a scene from Homer’s Iliad , set during the Trojan War. In the drawing, Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo, prays to Apollo for help after Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army, has refused to return his kidnapped daughter. In response, Apollo inflicts a plague upon the Greeks. Agamemnon returns Chryses’s daughter, but demands Chryses’s second kidnapped daughter, who is held by Achilles, in exchange.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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