Andromache in Captivity
Hector's widow Andromache is shown here arriving at Epirus where, following the Greek victory in the Trojan War, she has been awarded as a prize to Achilles's son Neoptolemus. When Leighton's painting "Captive Andromache" (Manchester City Art Gallery) was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1888, the catalogue included these lines from Homer's "Iliad" (translated by Elizabeth Barrett Browning):
Some standing by,
Marking thy tears fall, shall say 'This is she,
The wife of that same Hector that fought best
Of all the Trojans when all fought for Troy.'
This photogravure was created for a portfolio that reproduced paintings shown at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889.
Some standing by,
Marking thy tears fall, shall say 'This is she,
The wife of that same Hector that fought best
Of all the Trojans when all fought for Troy.'
This photogravure was created for a portfolio that reproduced paintings shown at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889.
Artwork Details
- Title: Andromache in Captivity
- Artist: After Frederic, Lord Leighton (British, Scarborough 1830–1896 London)
- Publisher: George Barrie (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- Subject: Homer (Greek, active 13th or 8th century BCE)
- Date: 1889
- Medium: Photogravure on chine collé
- Dimensions: Plate: 8 1/16 × 13 in. (20.5 × 33 cm)
Sheet: 11 9/16 × 16 13/16 in. (29.3 × 42.7 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2015
- Object Number: 2015.653.1
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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