Hector taking leave of Andromache: the Fright of Astyanax

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: Benjamin West (American, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738–1820 London)
Date: 1766
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash and blue watercolor, touches of gouache (bodycolor), over traces of black chalk
Dimensions: 14 x 19 in. (35.6 x 48.3 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift, 2000
Accession no.: 2000.243

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