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Minerva waking Ulysses

Maker

(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

Minerva waking Ulysses

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over graphite, on laid paper, laid down on a historic secondary support, also laid paper, likely a former album page

Dimensions

Height: 20 cm
Width: 31.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.11.1

Mode of Acquisition

Unknown, gift, 1948

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Related Works

Album of 40 drawings after Francesco Primaticcio's 'Ulysses' cycle at Fontainebleau

Provenance

James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford and 9th Earl of Balcarres (1847-1913) [his bookplate on inside cover]; by descent to David Alexander Robert Lindsay, 28th Earl of Crawford and 11th Earl of Balcarres (1900-1975); by whom presented to The Courtauld, 13 August 1948

Literature

Béguin, Sylvie, Jean Guillaume and Alan Roy, La galerie d’Ulysse à Fontainebleau, Paris, 1985
p. 268, under no. 31

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: foolscap with five points (central point much longer, does not end in a ball, does not culminate in a '4', but points down to pyramid of three stacked circles; horns on head are symmetric and separated, defined by strips, and with smaller bells inside and on the ends) Historic support, verso. left centre: crowned shield containing fleur-de-lis (narrow shield, with straight edges)

Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink, ‘AvD’ in monogram: AvD.TvT. 31; lower margin, brown ink: Apparition de minerve à Ulÿsse, qui est assuré par elle-mesme qu’il est abordé au lieu de sa / naissance. ce qui nous advise; que les hommes extaordinaires ne sont jamais sans un genie particulier qui veille / sur eux, et qui prend le soing de leur conduitte. [The appearance of Minerva assures Ulysses that he has arrived in the country of his birth. This tells us: that extraordinary men are never without their own guardian angel who looks after them and watches over what they do.]

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