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Navigation of Ulysses

Maker

(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

Navigation of Ulysses

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 24.5 cm
Width: 34.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.21.2

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. 233, under no. 15

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left on the side of the boat, brown ink: TvT; lower right on the prow of the boat, brown ink: 15; lower margin, brown ink: Ulÿsse et ses compagnons s’estant remis sur la meer, naüiguent dans un grand calme à la faveur / des zephirs, qui enflent les voiles de leurs vaisseaux. par où il nous est monstré, que dans la revolution des choses du monde / la fortune n’est pas toujours si Rigoreuse, qu’à la fin elle ne s’adoucisse, et ne change ses disgraces en prosperi / tez. [Ulysses and his companions, once again at sea, sail in a great calm thanks to the zephyrs who inflate the sails of their ships. By this it is shown, that in the revolution of the things of the world, Fortune is not always so rigorous, that in the end she does not soften herself, and change her disfavour into prosperity.]

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