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.[2]