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Ulysses and Telemachus on their way to Ulysses’s father Laertes

Maker

(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

Ulysses and Telemachus on their way to Ulysses’s father Laertes

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brown wash, white chalk, with added black ink (this follows the contours of the figures, and is smudged or lifted in areas, suggesting it was applied for the purpose of transferring), on blue laid paper; light red chalk offset on verso

Dimensions

Height: 25.4 cm
Width: 36.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.13.1

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. 313, under no. 51

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto (all in a brown ink that is darker than that of the drawing): lower left: .TvT. 51; lower centre, in monogram: AvD; lower margin: Ulÿsse sort de la ville, pour s’en aller voir son pere Laertes. ce qu’il faict à la faveur de minerve, qui l’enve / lope d’un nuage; et avecque luÿ Telemachus Eumée et Philexius. par où nous est enseigné, Qu’en / vain nous travaillons pour la gloïre, si l’aÿant acquise noús n’en tesmoignons la reconnoissance à / ceux qui en sont la cause, pour nous avoir mis au monde. [Ulysses leaves the city in order to go and see his father Laertes. This he has done with the approval of Minerva, who hides him in a cloud, as well as Telemachus, Eumaeus and Philexius. By which we learn that we work in vain for glory, if, having acquired it, we do not show gratitude to those who are its cause, through having brought us into the world.]

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