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Polyphemus hurls a rock at Ulysses’ departing ship (recto)
Offset and figure of Polyphemus from same scene as on recto (verso)

Maker

(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

Polyphemus hurls a rock at Ulysses’ departing ship (recto)
Offset and figure of Polyphemus from same scene as on recto (verso)

Medium

Pen and black ink over traces of black chalk, with brown ink framing lines (recto), black chalk offset and pen and black ink (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.7 cm
Width: 29 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.16.1

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




Related Works

Album of 40 drawings after Francesco Primaticcio's 'Ulysses' cycle at Fontainebleau

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. 227, under no. 12

Inscriptions

Watermark: left centre: a dragon?

Verso (turned 180 degrees): upper edge, brown ink, unclear: 118. 8H [?]; right centre edge, brown ink: 53; lower right corner, brown ink: P.T .

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