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Ulysses relates his adventures to Penelope

Maker

(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

Ulysses relates his adventures to Penelope

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: 20.8 cm
Width: 31.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.21.1

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. 306, under no. 48

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: foolscap with five points (the points end not in circles but in deformed shapes, teardrop-shaped and not regular; no match found in Heawood or Churchill). Historic support, verso, left centre: crowned shield with straight edges, containing fleur-de-lis.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink, ‘AvD’ in monogram: TvT.AvD. 48; lower margin, brown ink: Ulÿsse estant au lict avec penelope, luÿ fait un ample recit de ses aventures; et son propre example luÿ donne / à connaitre, qu’il y a du plaisir à s’entretenir de la tempeste quand on se void [sic] dans le calme. [Ulysses, in bed with Penelope, gives her a full account of his adventures. And by his own example gives her to understand, that there is pleasure to be had in talking about the tempest when one knows one is in the calm.]

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