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Minerva, disguised as Telemachus, appears to Ulysses

Maker

(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

Minerva, disguised as Telemachus, appears to Ulysses

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

Dimensions

Height: 19.8 cm
Width: 31.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.20.2

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. 271, under no. 32

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: foolscap with 5 points, the central one not ending in a circle but points down to 3 circles stacked in a pyramid. Historic support, verso, right centre: small crowned shield containing fleur-de-lis, with straight edges.

Inscription: Recto: lower right of centre, brown ink: 32 TvT; lower left, brown ink, in monogram, written over the first letter, U, of the first word, Ulysses of the long inscription, which has been crossed out: AvD; lower margin, brown ink: ULYSSE [previous word struck out] Minerve apparoit derechef à Ulÿsse, sous la forme de son fils Telemachus / et nous advertit par ce moÿen, que la sagesse n’est jamais si bien placée, / que lors qu’elle se rencontre avec la prudence, qui estoit la principale / vertu de ce prince grec. [Minerva appears once again to Ulysses in the guise of his son Telemachus, and teaches us by these means, that wisdom is never so well placed as when it joins with prudence, which is the main virtue of this Greek prince.]

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