Andromache Mourning Hector
painting by David
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discussed in biography
- In Jacques-Louis David: Rise to fame: 1780–94
…pathos and painterly skill of Andromache Mourning Hector brought him election to the Académie Royale in 1784; and that same year, accompanied this time by his wife and studio assistants, he returned to Rome with a commission to complete a painting that appears to have been originally inspired by a…
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