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Ulysses meeting his father Laertes in the vineyard

Maker

(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

Ulysses meeting his father Laertes in the vineyard

Medium

Point of brush and black ink (applied dry), grey wash, pen and brown ink, on laid paper, laid down on a historic secondary support, also laid paper, likely a former album page

Dimensions

Height: 20.8 cm
Width: 31.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.13.2

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. 317, under no. 53

Inscriptions

Watermark: shield containing fleur-de-lis / WR [monogram]. Historic support, verso, right centre: shield containing fleur-de-lis (narrow shield, with straight edges).

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, brown ink, ‘AvD’ in monogram: .AvD. / TvT 53; lower margin, brown ink: Ulÿsse se faict reconnoistre à son pere, qui l’entretient de quelques fruicts particuliers de son jardin, et luÿ re[met] / en memoire, que les p p le plaisirs les plus innocens sont ceux qui se prennent à la campagne, loing du tumulte / des villes. [Ulysses makes himself known to his father, who speaks to him about several fruits specific to his garden, which recalls to him that the most innocent pleasures take place in the countryside, far away from the bustle of the city.]

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