Hector bidding farewell to Andromache and Astyanax

細節

Benjamin West, P.R.A. (Pennsylvania 1738-1820 London)
Hector bidding farewell to Andromache and Astyanax
pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour, watermark Britannia
9¾ x 7¾ in. (248 x 198 mm.)

來源

The artist's family, and by descent to
Mrs P. Howard; Sotheby's, London, 22 March 1979, lot 12.

出版

Supplement to La Belle Assemblée - A Correct Catalogue of the Works by Benjamin West, Esq., published in Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine, otherwise known as La Belle Assemblée, 1808, no. 265. H. von Erffa and A. Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West, New Haven and London, 1986, no. 163, note 4, p. 249.

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拍品專文

The present watercolour shows a scene from the Iliad Book 6, 440-70. West painted at least four versions of this subject and executed a drawing, now in the Getty Museum (von Erffa and Staley, op.cit., no. 165). The present study, however, has a greater range of colour and provides a more intimate interpretation of the leave taking.