Plaque with Cavalry Battle between Greeks and Trojans

Description This plaque together with its counterpart (44.133), each painted in "sfumato grisaille," were surely from a series set into a casket. One of the commanding figures is identified as Hector, the most valiant of the Trojans in "The Iliad," the Homeric epic chronicling the Greek conquest of Troy; so the overall theme may have been the Trojan War. The artist took motifs from an engraving after a composition by the Italian master Giulio Romano (1499-1546) that represented a military campaign of the Roman general Scipio Africanus. The monogram "KIP," found here, is thought to be that of Jean Poillevé.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
4/02/1981	Examination	examined for loan

Exhibitions

• Exposition rétrospective de l'art français au Trocadéro. Paris. 1889.
• Exposition Universelle. Paris. 1867.

Provenance Collection of Baron de Theïs Sale, 1874, no. 55; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters