Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia
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Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia
Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia is an 1682 oil on canvas painting by Claude Lorrain, a painter of the style of Classicism. It depicts a scene from book 7, verses 483–499, of Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid, where Aeneas's son Ascanius shoots Silvia's pet stag, provoking a war against Latium. Painted for Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna (1637–1689), it was Lorrain's's last painting. It was a pendant to Lorrain's earlier painting Aeneas's Farewell to Dido in Carthago (1676)
The painting is in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.[1]
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