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| Leonard Baskin Andromache 1962 lithograph (book illustration) Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Gilles Demarteau Weeping Andromaque before 1776 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Pierre-Paul Prud'hon Pyrrhus and Andromache ca. 1793-96 drawing Harvard Art Museums |
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| Honoré Daumier Racine's Andromaque on stage 1851 lithograph Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Joseph-Théodore Richomme after Pierre-Narcisse Guérin Andromache with Astyanax kneeling before Pyrrhus 1825 etching and engraving British Museum |
from Andromaque
Pyrrhus:
J'irai punir les Grecs de vos maux et des miens.
Animé d'un regard, je puis tout entreprendre:
Votre Ilion encor peut sortir de sa cendre;
Je puis, en moins de temps que les Grecs ne l'ont pris,
Dans ses murs relevés couronner votre fils.
Andromaque:
Seigneur, tant de grandeurs ne nous touchent plus guère.
Je les lui promettais tant qu'a vécu son père.
Non, vous n'espérez plus de nous revoir encor,
Sacrés murs que n'a pu conserver mon Hector!
A de moindre faveurs des malheureux prétendent,
Seigneur: c'est un exil que mes pleurs vous demandent.
Souffrez que, loin des Grecs, et même loin de vous,
J'aille cacher mon fils, et pleurer mon époux.
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Pyrrhus:
I'll punish Greece for all your pain and mine.
Lit by your glance, I can take on the world.
Your Ilium can rise from ashes still.
In less time than the Greeks demolished it,
I'll build its walls again, and crown your son.
Andromache:
Such noble things can scarcely touch me now.
I promised them to him before his father died.
The sacred walls that Hector could not save
Must not now hope to look on us again.
Unhappy people ask for smaller gifts,
My lord. I plead with you for banishment.
Let me go far from Greece, and far from you,
And hide my son and mourn my husband's death.
– Jean Racine (1667), translated by Tim Chilcott (2000)
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| Romeyn de Hooghe Opera of Andromache at Milan 1702 etching and letterpress (title-page) British Museum |
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| Élisabeth-Sophie Chéron Andromache, Astyanax and Hector (study after an engraved gem) 1711 drawing British Museum |
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| Antonio Salamanca Andromache before 1562 engraving Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Muriel Wheeler Bronze Mask of Andromache ca. 1920-30 photograph by the artist Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| John Keyse Sherwin Mrs Hartley in the role of Andromache 1782 color stipple engraving Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Pierre-Paul Prud'hon Andromache and Astyanax ca. 1798 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Pierre-Paul Prud'hon Andromache and Astyanax ca. 1813-24 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Derby Porcelain Factory Andromache mourning Hector ca. 1780 porcelain Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Derby Porcelain Factory Andromache weeping over the ashes of Hector ca. 1775 porcelain Victoria & Albert Museum |