Hyanthe and Clymene at their Toilette
by DUBREUIL, Toussaint, Oil on canvas, 107 x 97 cm
In Greek mythology, Hyanthe and Clymene are the two daughters of a king of Crete who rescued Francus, the Trojan ancestor of the Franks, when he was shipwrecked. Dubreuil’s painting belonged to a group of about sixty paintings that Henri IV commissioned between 1594 and 1602 for the Château Neuf of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.