The Sacrifice of Polyxena, 1647, Oil on canvas, 67 5/16 ? 51 9/16 in. (171 ? 131 cm), Paintings, Charles Le Brun (French, Paris 1619?1690 Paris), As recounted by the Roman poet Ovid (43 B. C. ?A. D. 17/18), the compliant Polyxena is led to her death at the sacrificial altar to appease the ghost of the hero Achilles. Her mother tries to restrain her while the soldier Neoptolemus raises his sword