HALL?, No?l (b. 1711, Paris, d. 1781, Paris) The Race between Hippomenes and Atalanta 1762-65 Oil on canvas, 321 x 712 cm Mus?e du Louvre, Paris Hall? was a French history painter working in Paris. He was one of the painters from whom a cycle on the life of Saint Louis, destined for the chapel of the ?cole Militaire, was commissioned in 1772. In the Boeotian version of the legend, followed by Ovid (Met. 10:560-707), Atalanta was an athletic huntress. Her way with her suitors was to challenge them to a race in which the loser was punished with death. She remained unbeaten and a virgin until
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HALL?, No?l (b. 1711, Paris, d. 1781, Paris) The Race between Hippomenes and Atalanta 1762-65 Oil on canvas, 321 x 712 cm Mus?e du Louvre, Paris Hall? was a French history painter working in Paris. He was one of the painters from whom a cycle on the life of Saint Louis, destined for the chapel of the ?cole Militaire, was commissioned in 1772. In the Boeotian version of the legend, followed by Ovid (Met. 10:560-707), Atalanta was an athletic huntress. Her way with her suitors was to challenge them to a race in which the loser was punished with death. She remained unbeaten and a virgin until