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Ulysses and Penelope embracing

Maker

(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

Ulysses and Penelope embracing

Medium

Pen and black ink, black wash, white chalk, on blue laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 26.2 cm
Width: 36.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.22.1

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




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. 301, under no. 46

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, black ink, ‘AvD’ in monogram: 46 TvT AvD; lower margin, black ink: penelope saute au col de son marÿ, / et par son action luÿ donne de visibles demonstrations de sa joÿe et de son / Amour; marque evident, qu’il n’est non plus possible à une vraÿe amitié de n’esclatter pas, qu’à un grand feu de / demeurer caché sous la cendre. [Penelope throws her arms around her husband’s neck, and by this action gives him visible proof of her joy and her love. An obvious sign that it is no more possible for a true friendship not to burst forth, than for a great fire to remain hidden under the ash.]

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