Louis XV Period Fireback

Important fireback in the style of Rocaille, Louis XV period, representing a mythological scene, Iphigenia in Aulide, daughter of Agamemnon, king of Argos and Mycenae, and Clytemnestra, she lived, it is said, around 1150 BC. The Greek fleet, represented by the ship in the background of our plate, due to an unfavorable wind, remains docked at Aulis towards the coasts of Troy, the city of their destination, where Agamemnon learns that he must sacrifice his daughter to appease the irritation of Artemis (goddess of wild nature and hunting) but a deer was immolated in her place and allowed her to become priestess of Artemis in Tauride (current peninsula of Crimea). From Haute-Marne. Its weight is 122 kg. Bibliography: similar plate in CARPENTIER H. Fireplace plates, Tome premier, F. DE NOBELE, Paris, 1967, page 370 N° 1041