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Andromache Mourning Hector
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, 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.
rather than a conqueror.
Symbolism Inscriptions.
David uses inscriptions to reinforce the symbolism in eight of his known works: " Bélisaire asking for Alms", "Andromache Mourning Hector", "The Death of Marat", "The Furrier of Saint-Fargeau" (lost), "Napoleon Crossing the Alps", "Sappho and Phaon", "Napoleon in his Study", and "Leonidas at Thermopylae". In "The Death of Marat", the dying revolutionary holds a page with the name of