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| Anonymous British Maker Fan - Hector's Farewell to Andromache ca. 1730-50 gouache on paper, mother-of-pearl sticks Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| Benjamin West Hector bidding Farewell to Andromache 1797 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Jean-Antoine Julien Parting of Hector and Andromache before 1799 oil on canvas Museo del Prado, Madrid |
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| Adriaen van de Venne Andromache's Farewell to Hector ca. 1629-34 drawing Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Angelica Kauffmann Hector taking leave of Andromache 1768 oil on canvas National Trust, Saltram House, Plymouth |
from The Iliad
Yet come it will, the day decreed by fates;
(How my heart trembles while my tongue relates!)
The day when thou, imperial Troy! must bend,
And see thy warriors fall, thy glories end.
And yet no dire presage so wounds my mind,
My mother's death, the ruin of my kind,
Not Priam's hoary hairs defil'd with gore,
Not all my brothers gasping on the shore;
As thine, Andromache! thy griefs I dread;
I see thee trembling, weeping, captive led!
In Argive looms our battles to design,
And woes, of which so large a part was thine!
To bear the victor's hard commands, or bring
The weight of waters from Hyperia's spring.
There, while you groan beneath the load of life,
They cry, Behold the mighty Hector's wife!
Some haughty Greek who lives thy tears to see,
Embitters all thy woes, by naming me.
The thoughts of glory past, and present shame,
A thousand griefs shall waken at the name!
May I lie cold before that dreadful day,
Press'd with a load of monumental clay!
Thy Hector, wrapp'd in everlasting sleep,
Shall neither hear thee sigh, nor see thee weep.
– Homer (ca. 8th century BC), translated by Alexander Pope (1716)
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| circle of John Smibert Hector and Andromache ca. 1750 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
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| workshop of Bernard Picart Hector's Farewell to Andromache 1710 etching Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Max Slevogt Hector leaving Andromache 1921 lithograph (book illustration) Harvard Art Museums |
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| Attic Greece Kylix - Hector and Andromache ca. 500-470 BC painted terracotta Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Giorgio de Chirico Hector and Andromache 1917 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Lodovico Prosseda after Tommaso Minardi Andromache weeping over the corpse of Hector (shallow relief) 1823 etching and aquatint British Museum |
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| Gavin Hamilton Andromache mourning the death of Hector (study for painting) ca. 1760-63 drawing Yale Center for British Art |
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| Anonymous French Maker Andromache mourning Hector 18th century wax relief Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Jacques-Louis David Andromache mourning over the body of Hector (study for painting) 1782 drawing Petit Palais, Paris |
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| Jacques-Louis David Andromache mourning over the body of Hector 1783 oil on canvas Musée du Louvre |