[1] The painting depicts Venus sitting to Helen's left, while persuading her to love Paris.

He is already convinced and moves forward, but his upper body is still behind, because he is slightly intimidated and waiting for Helen's response.

Helen, dressed in blue, has a more submissive look and she raises her eyes towards Paris, with her face in profile.

The light passes from Helen's passive arm to the chest of Venus and finally to the body of Cupid who is thus at the center of the scene and the most illuminated.

It is of course allusive and we see neither Paris nor Helen in lascivious poses, unlike the painters of the Renaissance and the Baroque on dealing with the same subject.