Andromache Mourning Hector Explained

Andromache Mourning Hector
Other Language 1:French
Other Title 1:La Douleur et les Regrets d'Andromaque sur le corps d'Hector son mari
Artist:Jacques-Louis David
Year:1783
Medium:Oil on canvas
Height Metric:275
Width Metric:203
City:Paris
Museum:Musée du Louvre

Andromache Mourning Hector is a 1783 oil-on-canvas painting 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.[1] This painting, presented on 23 August 1783, brought David election to the Académie Royale in 1784.[2]

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  1. Web site: Boston College. Jacques-Louis David:Andromache Mourning HectorJacques-Louis David: Andromache Mourning Hector. 2014-07-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20141002001049/http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/neocl_dav_andro.html. 2014-10-02. dead.
  2. Web site: bio.. Jacques-Louis David Biography. 2014-07-11.