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Hector Parting with His Wife and Child at the Scaean Gate (Aeneas Parting with His Family ?), (painting). Artist:  West, Benjamin, 1738-1820, painter. Title:  Hector Parting with His Wife and Child at the Scaean Gate (Aeneas Parting with His Family ?), (painting). Dates:  1771. Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  73 x 55 in. Inscription:  unsigned Subject:  Mythology -- Classical -- Hector Literature -- Homer -- Iliad Mythology -- Classical -- Andromache Mythology -- Classical -- Astyanax Mythology -- Classical -- Priam Object Type:  Painting Owner:  New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, New York 10024 Accession Number: 1865.2 Provenance:  Gift of Webb, William H., 1865. References:  New-York Historical Society, "American landscape and genre paintings in the New-York Historical Society...," New York: New-York Historical Society; Boston, G. K. Hall, 1982. Evans, Grose, "Benjamin West and the taste of his times," Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1959. Illustration:  New-York Historical Society, "American landscape and genre paintings in the New-York Historical Society...," New York: New-York Historical Society; Boston, G. K. Hall, 1982, no. 2814, pg. 260. Evans, Grose, "Benjamin West and the taste of his times," Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 1959, no. 28. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 36363342   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 36363342 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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