Lapith

The classical carving, regarded by the Louvre as the most precious in its possession, depicts a centaur battling a burly Lapith woman, who in the struggle attempts to hold on to a peplos, or cloak, that has slipped from her shoulder.

The subjects of the pediments appear to have been the common ones of battles between Greek and Amazon and between Lapith and Centaur.

The monsters are in various attitudes 484 of attempted violence, of combat and defeat; with each grapples one of the Lapith heroes in the endeavour to rob them of their prey.

On each side of him is a group of three, a centaur trying to carry off a woman and a Lapith striking at him.

His drawing gives the head and part of the right upper arm of the Centaur, and the left leg and half the right leg of the Lapith, but not his head.