The Battle of Issus
| Object type | Painting |
| Genre | Classical History |
| Date | 1602 |
| Dimensions | 80 x 136 cm |
| Support | Panel |
| Medium | Oil |
| Signature | BRUEGHEL 1602 |
| Our attribution | Jan Brueghel the Elder |
| Other authorities | Ertz 2008-10, #549 Ertz 1979, #86 |
| Location | Paris, France |
| Collection | Musée du Louvre |
| Accession numbers | inv. #1921 |
| Tags | Battle, Death, Horse, Crowd, Soldiers, Landscape |
| External resources | Musée du Louvre |
For the narrative of Alexander and Darius at Issus see Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, trans. E. Iliff Robson. Loeb Classical Library. (London: Heinemann/ New York, Putnam & Sons, 1929), II:iii-xii; Quintus Curtius Rufus, History of Alexander I: Books I - V, trans. J.C. Rolfe. Loeb Classical Library. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press/ London: William Heinemann, 1962), Book III. Brueghel follows Quintus Curtius's account: Arrian describes Darius as fleeing in his golden chariot, as we see in Altdorfer's famous picture of this subject, but Quintus Curtius says that he left his chariot when the horses panicked, and instead fled on horseback and this is exactly what Brueghel shows.