Andromache Mourning Hector, 1783 St. Joseph Catholic Church Christ's scourging at the pillar

Christ's scourging at the pillar

Joaquim Espalter i Rull was a Catalan painter who spent most of his career in Madrid

training with Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam

He worked in various places in central Italy

he married Zita of Bourbon-Parma

Andromache Mourning Hector, 1783 St. Joseph Catholic Church Christ's scourging at the pillarAndromache Mourning Hector is a 1783 oil painting by Jacques Louis David. The painting depicts an image from Homer's Iliad, showing Andromache, comforted by her son, Astyanax, mourning over her husband Hector, who has been killed by Achille Jacques Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.