1643 · Groeninge Museum, Bruges

An assistant of Rubens, the great Antwerp master, Erasmus Quellin painted this effectively lit but classicising scene showing the discovery of Achilles, disguised as a woman, by Odysseus and Diomedes. In the 1640s, the architecture in the background of Quellinus's paintings acquires a remarkable classicist stamps. This is very noticeable in works like the Achilles among the Daughters of Lycomedes.