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]