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Ulysses shooting at Antinous

Maker

(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

Ulysses shooting at Antinous

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 24.5 cm
Width: 36.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.24.2

Mode of Acquisition

Unknown, gift

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, 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. 288 under no. 40

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: lower right, black ink: 40 TvT; lower margin, black ink: Ulÿsse se donne à connoistre aux Amans de penelope, et tuë Antinous comme il beuvoit. par où nous sommes / advertis, qu’apres une longue patience, il y a de la justice à chastier la temerité de ceux qui nous offencent injustement / ADM [Ulysses makes himself known to Penelope’s lovers, and kills Antinous as he drinks. By this we are taught that after much forbearance, there is justice in punishing the temerity of those who offend us unjustly.]

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