Hecuba swooning

Blondel, Merry Joseph (1781-1853)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
ca. 1814
Height:
17.8 cm  (7 in.)
Width:
35.7 cm  (14 1/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
graphite and brown wash on cream wove paper

Description

The drawing on this album page depicts a scene in which a male figure with laurel crown (possibly representing Homer), stands and plays a kithara in front of figures of Hecuba, swooning, and two female attendants. The elderly figure behind them presumably represents King Priam.

Iconclass

48C7522
one person playing string instrument (plucked)
95B(HECUBA00)6
(story of) Hecuba - suffering, misfortune

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Kithara [4940]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

See RIdIM item 5768 for a similar figure drawn by Blondel and identified as Homer

RIdIM record id

5785