Perseus and Andromeda (Lemoyne)

Perseus and Andromeda is a 1723 oil on canvas painting by the French artist François Lemoyne (1688-1737), measuring 184 by 151 cm. It is now in the Wallace Collection in London, which also houses Titian's version of the same subject, whose composition Lemoyne borrowed and reversed for his work.

It depicts Andromeda's rescue by Perseus as told in Book IV of Ovid's Metamorphoses. According to Donat Nonnotte, the painting's first owner was François Berger.

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