The wife of the king of Troy, Hecuba, is depicted thrusting the sword into the Thracian king Polymestor's eyes and blinding him in one of the miniatures from the 14th-century manuscript "L'Ovide moralisé." Hecuba stands to the left. She wears a red garment and a tiara (a crown). Besides her stand two captive women from Troy, who help Hecuba avenge her son's death. In the center, Polymestor collapses as he bleeds. Two Troy prisoner women who assist Hecuba in avenging the death of her son stand next to her. Polymestor, who is in the center, falls over while bleeding. In terms of morphology and clothing the miniature refer to the Middle Ages, when the manuscript was created.

"L'Ovide moralisé" is an anonymous adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses in old French and was first published in the 14th century.