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After triumphing over Melantheus, Ulysses is welcomed by his servants

Maker

(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

After triumphing over Melantheus, Ulysses is welcomed by his servants

Medium

Pen and black ink with grey wash on laid paper, laid down on a historic secondary support, also laid paper, likely a former album page

Dimensions

Height: 20.7 cm
Width: 31.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.3.2

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.297, under no. 44.
A copy after the etching of Les Travaux d’Ulysse, pl. 44 (Hollstein 1949-2004, XXX, p. 119, no. 82; for the original fresco by Primaticcio, see Béguin, Guillaume and Roy 1985, pp. 296-97).

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: fleur-de-lis in a shield. Unable to identify further due to media interference. Historic secondary support, Verso: left centre: a crowned shield, unable to see what it contains.

Recto: lower left, black ink, ‘ADM’ in monogram: TvT 44 ADM; lower margin, black ink: Euriclee nourrice d’Ulysse, advertit Penelope du Retour du prince son maistre, les domestiques duquel / le viennent tous saluër et nous apprennent par leur exemple; que le contentement des vrays serviteurs d’une maison ne / s’entretient que par la presence de leur maistre. [Eurycleia, Ulysses’ nurse, alerts Penelope to the return of the prince, her master, whose servants come together to rejoice and show that the happiness of the household’s true staff is only maintained by the presence of their master.]

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