Andromache Mourning Hector, 1783

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 Achille

Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.