Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus

Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus is a 1630-32 painting by the Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck. It was acquired by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. It illustrates the story of the Shield of Achilles, from the Iliad, Book 18, lines 478–608, in which Thetis requests replacement weapons and shield for her son Achilles from Hephaestus.

External links

http://bilddatenbank.khm.at/viewArtefact?id=650

Anthony van Dyck
List of paintings
Religious subjects	Entry of Christ into Jerusalem (1617) Crucifixion with Saints (1617–1619) Saint Martin and the Beggar (1618) The Brazen Serpent (c. 1618–1620) The Apostle Matthew (c. 1618–1620) The Betrayal of Christ (1618–1620) Bristol Madrid Minneapolis Saint Ambrose barring Theodosius from Milan Cathedral (c. 1619–20) Christ Crowned with Thorns (1619–20) Samson and Delilah 1620 1630 Madonna and Child (1621–1627) The Mocking of Christ (1628–1630) The Coronation of Saint Rosalia (1629) The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph (1629–30) Madonna and Child with Two Donors (1630) Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1630) Crucifixion (1630) Deposition / Lamentation over the Dead Christ 1615 1618 1619 1629 1629–30 1634 1635 1640
Saint Rosalia series (1624–1625)	Houston London Madrid New York Ponce Palermo (studio work) Munich (autograph or studio)
Mythological subjects	Drunken Silenus (1620) Jupiter and Antiope (1620) Diana and a Nymph Surprised by a Satyr (1622–1627) The Shepherd Paris (1628) Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus (1630–1632) Cupid and Psyche (1638–1640)
Portraits	Charles I with M. de St Antoine (1633) Charles I at the Hunt (c.1635) Charles I in Three Positions (1635 or 1636) Equestrian Portrait of Charles I (1637–38) Triple Portrait of Henrietta Maria (1638) Portrait of Queen Henrietta Maria, as St Catherine (1639) Luigia Cattaneo-Gentile (c. 1622) Magistrates of Brussels (Preparatory sketch) (1634–5) Olivia Boteler Porter (1630s) Mary Villiers, Lady Herbert of Shurland (c. 1636) Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart (c. 1638)
Self-portraits	1613–14 1632–33 1635 (with Endymion Porter) 1640
Related	Van Dyke beard

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