Énée, dans l'embrasement de Troie, voulant retourner au combat, est arrêté par sa femme Créuse

Painted in 1785 and held by the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, this canvas depicting Aeneas being restrained by his wife Creusa during the sack of Troy illustrates a key moment from Virgil's Aeneid. As Troy burned, Aeneas — pietas personified in Latin literature — sought to rush back into the fighting; Creusa's act of physically restraining him embodies the conflict between the warrior's martial impulse and the familial duty that would ultimately define his destiny. The subject offered a narrative of intense physical and emotional drama suitable for large-scale Neoclassical history painting. The 1785 date places it in the fertile pre-Revolutionary decade when the French Salon was thick with Roman and Homeric subjects. The Musée Fabre in Montpellier holds major French Neoclassical works, and this canvas is among Suvée's most ambitious treatments of classical epic material.

The composition is structured around the opposing forces of Aeneas's forward movement and Creusa's restraining gesture. Fire in the background provides a vivid setting that Suvée uses to silhouette and illuminate the figures dramatically. The handling is vigorous, with loose, urgent brushwork in the burning architecture contrasting with more finished figure work.