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Embarkation of the Greeks after the fall of Troy

Maker

After
(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

Embarkation of the Greeks after the fall of Troy

Medium

Pen and greyish-brown ink, greyish-brown wash, white bodycolour (now oxidised and turned grey or black), on pink-prepared paper laid paper (the pink wash not neatly applied and does not extend to edges of the sheet), laid down on a historic secondary support, also laid paper, likely a former album page

Dimensions

Height: 21.1 cm
Width: 32.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.5.1

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. 202, under no. 1

Inscriptions

Watermark: unable to discern any in the drawing sheet; historic support, verso, left centre: crowned shield containing fleur-de-lis (thin, with straight edges on shield).

Inscription: Recto: lower right, grey ink, 'AMD' in monogram, the 'J' is the Roman numeral 'I': .TvT.J.AMD; lower margin, grey ink: Les Grecs ayant mis à feu et à sang la grande ville de Troÿe, après l’avoir assiégée dix ans dura / nt, remontent en leurs vaisseaux, et font des préparatifs, pour s’en retourner; par où l’on peut voire, que les / villes semblent avoir leur destin comme les hommes, et qu’encore qu’elles soient le chef-d’œuvre d’une longue / paix, si est-ce qu’il ne faut quelquesfois qu’un stratagème de guerre pour les reduire à neant. [The Greeks, having put the great city of Troy to fire and blood after a ten years’ siege, embark in their ships in preparation for returning home. As one can see from this, cities have their destiny in the same way as men, and that it matters not if they are the masterpiece of a long peace if sometimes it takes nothing more than a strategy of war to reduce them to nothing.]

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