Thetis Receiving the Arms of Achilles from Vulcan
Painting by Peter Paul Rubens
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Thetis Receiving the Arms of Achilles from Vulcan is a c.1630 oil on panel painting by Peter Paul Rubens, originally produced as a cartoon for a tapestry and now in the musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau.[1] It shows Thetis visiting Mount Olympus to collect the weapons she had had Vulcan forge for her son Achilles, along with a putto handing a helmet to a triton.[2]
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Sketch for the work in the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam.
