Ithacan rebels attacking the house of Laertes
Maker
(artist)
1606-1669
After
(artist)
1504-1570
1606-1669
After
(artist)
1504-1570
Title
Ithacan rebels attacking the house of Laertes
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 and black ink offset on right-hand verso of support, matching D.1948.XX.21.15.2
Dimensions
Height: 20.7 cm
Width: 31.5 cm
Width: 31.5 cm
Accession Number
D.1948.XX.21.14.2
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. 323, under no. 56
p. 323, under no. 56
Inscriptions
Watermark: none 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, ‘AvD’ in monogram: 56 TvT AvD; lower margin, brown ink: La Commune d’Ithaque se sousleve, pour tirer raison de ceux qu’Ulÿsse avoit tuez, et s’en va l’attaquer / dans la maison de son pere. cet evenement est un tableau de la foiblesse du menu peuple, à qui la fureur met / les armes à la main, par un effort plus brutal que raisonnable. [The people of Ithaca rise up to avenge those killed by Ulysses and set off to attack him in his father’s house. This event is an illustration of the weakness of the common people, who in anger take up arms in an endeavour more brutal than rational.]
Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink, ‘AvD’ in monogram: 56 TvT AvD; lower margin, brown ink: La Commune d’Ithaque se sousleve, pour tirer raison de ceux qu’Ulÿsse avoit tuez, et s’en va l’attaquer / dans la maison de son pere. cet evenement est un tableau de la foiblesse du menu peuple, à qui la fureur met / les armes à la main, par un effort plus brutal que raisonnable. [The people of Ithaca rise up to avenge those killed by Ulysses and set off to attack him in his father’s house. This event is an illustration of the weakness of the common people, who in anger take up arms in an endeavour more brutal than rational.]
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