The Sacrifice of Iphigenia (Pompeii, House of the Tragic Poet) - after Timanthes

Plinus describes Timanthes's painting, of which this fresco is said to be a copy,

as follows.

"We have of him an Iphigenia, exalted by orators, which he painted standing (qua stante pinxisset), awaiting death, near the altar ; then, after depicting all the afflicted audience - particularly her uncle -, and exhausting all the modes of expressing grief, he veiled the face of the father himself, whose features he was unable to render adequately. "

The young girl stands in the center, but she's not upright. Ulysses and Diomedes drag her by force to the place of sacrifice. To the left, her distraught father covers his face; to the right, Calchas, terrified, hesitates. Above, Artemis welcomes the young girl on the back of a hind on her cloud.