Pen with brown ink, washed in brown, traces of white lead; 620 x 1010 mm.

The subject is not the most usual in the repertoire of Neoclassicism. Paris is recognizable by his weapons, bow and arrows, which follow his body. The female figure who bursts into the room is probably Oenone, the nymph who, after refusing to save Paris, will die with him in the funeral pyre.