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Ulysses in the land of the Laestrygones

Maker

(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

Ulysses in the land of the Laestrygones

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: 20.1 cm
Width: 31.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.11.2

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




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. 237, under no. 17

Inscriptions

Watermark: unable to discern any in the drawing sheet. Historic support, verso, left centre: crowned shield containing fleur-de-lis (narrow shield, with straight edges).

Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink: 17 .TvT; lower left, brown ink, in monogram: .AvD. : lower margin, brown ink: Ulÿsse arrive au paÿs des Lestrigons, le Roÿ des quels, qu’on nommoit Antiphates, luÿ mange deux / de ses gens. ce qui sert de preuve, Que les grands hommes ont beaucoup à souffrir en voyant le monde, et qu’ils ne doivent / jamais attendre des Tyrans que des actions de / barbarie et d’infidelité. [Ulysses arrives in the country of the Laestrygones, whose king, called Antiphates, has eaten two of his men. That serves to prove that great men have much to suffer in seeing the world, and that they must never expect from tyrants anything other than barbarous or unfaithful deeds.]

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