| Jupiter and Thetis | |
|---|---|
 "She sank to the ground beside him, put her left arm round his knees, raised her right hand to touch his chin, and so made her petition to the Royal Son of Cronos", Iliad 1.500–502 | |
| Artist | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres |
| Year | 1811 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 347.03 cm × 257.18 cm (136.625 in × 101.250 in) |
| Location | Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France |
Jupiter and Thetis is an 1811 painting by the French neoclassical painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, in the Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, France. Painted when the artist was not yet 31, the work severely and pointedly contrasts the grandeur and might of a cloud-borne Olympian male deity against that of a diminutive and half nude nymph. Ingres' subject matter is borrowed from an episode in Homer's Iliad when the sea nymph Thetis begs Jupiter to intervene and guide the fate of her son Achilles, who was at the time embroiled in the Trojan War.[1]
- ^ Rosenblum, 72