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Pieter Lastman
Dutch, ca. 1583-1633

Paris and Oenone, 1610
Oil on panel

Purchase in honor of Thomas G. Cousins, President of the
Board of Directors, 1987-1991, with funds from Alfred Austell
Thornton in memory of Leila Austell Thornton and Albert
Edward Thornton, Sr., and Sarah Miller Venable and William
Hoyt Venable, 1990.57

This painting of a married couple from Greek
mythology depicts a dramatic moment that
ultimately leads to their deaths. Oenone begs
her husband, Paris, not to leave for Troy. His
subsequent abduction of Helen led to the
Trojan War, his death, and Oenone's suicide.