Aeneas

Description This plaque represents the great Trojan hero who fled with his companions to Italy where he founded the city of Rome. He is pictured wearing a plumed helmet, a breast-plate enriched with a lion's mask, and a mantle fastened on his left shoulder by an intaglio brooch. A companion plaque of Aeneas' lover, Dido, Queen of Carthage, also belongs to the Walters collection (Walters 44.240).

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
11/28/1956	Treatment	other
7/23/1965	Treatment	other
11/20/1987	Treatment	cleaned; loss compensation; examined for condition
2/15/1995	Treatment	cleaned; loss compensation

Exhibitions

• Carthage: l'histoire, sa trace et son écho. Musée du Petit Palais, Genève. 1995.

Provenance Castle of Gaillon (?); George Robinson Harding, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters