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The corpses of the suitors are being carried away

Maker

(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

The corpses of the suitors are being carried away

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; light black chalk offset on verso of support

Dimensions

Height: 21 cm
Width: 31.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.14.1

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. 321, under no. 55

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: letters, possibly I_D (see countermark for Churchill 355, dated 1656; the foolscap in D.1948.XX.21.8.1 looked like a variant of Churchill 355). Historic support, verso, left centre: crowned shield containing fleur-de-lis (narrow shield with straight edges).

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, brown ink, ‘AvD’ in monogram: TvT 55.AvD.; lower margin, brown ink: L’on enterre les corps de ceux qu’Ulysse avoit tuez, pour venger leurs insolences, et la recherche qu’ils faisoient de / penelope. Il ne se peut donner un meilleur exemple, que celuy-cy de la generosite d’un grand prince, qui n’empesche jamais, que / l’on ne rende les devoirs de la sepulture aux ennemis qu’il a deffaicts. [The bodies of those whom Ulysses has killed to avenge their insolence and their pursuit of Penelope, are buried. One cannot give a better example of the generosity of a great Prince, which never prevents him from rendering burial services to his enemies, whom he has defeated.]

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