Keywords: Charles Le Brun - The Sacrifice of Polyxena.jpg Artwork Q19905106 title 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 oil canvas cm 177 8 131 4 Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art http //www metmuseum org/collection/the-collection-online/search/442761 1647 PD-old-100 Paintings by Charles Le Brun French paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Sacrifice of Polyxena |