Hercules and Diomedes

Hercules and Diomedes is an 1835 oil painting by the French artist Antoine-Jean Gros. It depicts two figures from Ancient Greek Mythology, Heracles and Diomedes. Gros, a former pupil of Jacques-Louis David, was a proponent of Neoclassicism and sharply opposed to the rising trend of Romanticism.
The painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1835 at the Louvre in Paris. The poor reception of the painting there seems to have led him to commit suicide the same year. Today it is in the collection of the Musée des Augustins in Toulouse, having been acquired in 1836.