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Ulysses shooting the arrow through the twelve rings in the presence of Penelope’s suitors (recto)
Unidentified composition (verso)

Maker

(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

Ulysses shooting the arrow through the twelve rings in the presence of Penelope’s suitors (recto)
Unidentified composition (verso)

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper, laid down on a historic secondary support, also laid paper, likely a former album page; a separate sheet of laid paper laid down on the verso of the support containing a counterproof in brown ink, with a red chalk drawing mostly hidden on its verso but visible are two figures’ heads

Dimensions

Height: 20.1 cm
Width: 31.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.18.2

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




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

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: foolscap. Historic secondary support: unable to see as sandwiched between two other sheets of paper with watermarks. Separate sheet adhered to verso of historic secondary support: Verso, right centre: three stacked circles surmounted by top of a cross, the upper containing a cross, the centre two or three letters, the lower circle 6 (no match yet found).

Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink: AvD (in monogram) TvT / 39; lower margin, brown ink: Ulÿsse bande l’arc du premier coup, et tire une fleche, qu’il fait passer adroitement dans toutes les boucles / qu’on avoit plantées. Ce qui montre assez, que les choses qu’on estime les plus malaisées, / ne le sont pas, lors que pour les surmonter l’on joinct comme il faut la force à l’adresse. [Ulysses draws his bow at the first attempt and fires an arrow which passes dexterously through all the rings that have been planted. This shows well enough that the things one considers to be the most uncomfortable are not, when, in order to overcome them, one joins, as one should, force and skill.] (lower margin, brown ink); Historic secondary support, Recto: lower right corner, graphite: 6.

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