Andromache Mourning Hector

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.

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