Andromache Mourning Hector

Andromache Mourning Hector
French: La Douleur et les Regrets d'Andromaque sur le corps d'Hector son mari
Artist Jacques-Louis David
Year 1783
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 275 cm × 203 cm (108 in × 80 in)
Location Musée du Louvre, Paris

Andromache Mourning Hector is a 1783 oil painting by Jacques-Louis David. The painting depicts an image from Homer's Iliad, showing Andromache, comforted by her son, 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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