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Ithacan rebels attacking the house of Laertes

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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.]

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