Painting and Sculpture

Andromache Mourning Hector

Andromache Mourning Hector is an oil painting on canvas of 1783 by the French Neoclassical artist Jacques-Louis David. The painting depicts an image from Homer's Iliad, showing Andromache, comforted by her son, Astyanax, mourning over her husband Hector, who has been killed by Achilles. This painting, presented on 23 August 1783, brought David election to the Académie Royale in 1784.

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• ▸Arles: View from the Wheat Fields
• ▸Acropolis Museum
• ▸Cleopatra (Artemisia Gentileschi, Milan)

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