Пленённая Андромаха

In Homer's Iliad, the Trojan hero Hector says goodbye to his wife Andromache and imagines what will come if he falls, that she will be led away a slave and made to carry water for a foreign household. Leighton painted that prophecy come true. Andromache stands at the centre in black, a widow among the women of a Greek town, waiting her turn at the well. Hector is dead, Troy has fallen, and no one around her knows or cares who she once was. Leighton was president of the Royal Academy when he made this around 1888, the most honoured painter in Britain, steeped in Greek poetry and sculpture. Manchester bought the huge canvas the following year for 4,000 pounds.