The Despair of Hecuba

ca. 1784

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Pen and black ink, gray wash
Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 8 15/16 in. (16.5 x 22.7 cm.)
Collection no.: 65.125.2
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jean François Pierre Peyron. The Despair of Hecuba. Jean François Pierre Peyron; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1965. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

The Despair of Hecuba — Jean François Pierre Peyron. ca. 1784.

Medium: Pen and black ink, gray wash. Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 8 15/16 in. (16.5 x 22.7 cm.).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1965.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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