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Tiresias drinking the blood of the victims

Maker

(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

Tiresias drinking the blood of the victims

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over graphite, on laid paper, with an added strip along the upper edge; the image only covers about one third of the sheet

Dimensions

Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 36 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.12.1

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




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. 249, under no. 23

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, black ink, ‘AvD’ in monogram: TvT 23 AvD; lower margin, black ink: Tÿresias ayant boü du sang des victimes, instruict Ulÿsse sur ce qu’il doit faire pour son retour, comme si par ces / advis il luÿ vouloit déclarer; que ce n’est pas tout de s’engager dans les grandes entreprises, mais qu’il faut penser / aux moyens de sen tirer honorablement. [Tiresias, having drunk the blood of the victims, tells Ulysses what he must do on his return, as if by this advice he wishes to make known to him, that it is not everything to engage in great enterprises but one must think of means to get out of them honourably.]

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