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Neptune raises a storm

Maker

After
(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

Neptune raises a storm

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over graphite, on laid paper, with an added strip along the upper edge

Dimensions

Height: 24.8 cm
Width: 36.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.7.1

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. 207, under no. 3

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, black ink: 3 TvT; lower margin, black ink, ‘AVD’ in monogram: Ulÿsse s’estant embarquée avecques ses gens, espreuye sur mer la colère de neptune, qui par l’horribl[e- cut off] / meslange qu’il faict de vents et des vagues, expose sa flotte à la violence de la tempeste, et l’advertit par / ce changement inopiné, que les grands desseins ne sont jamais sans obstacles, qui toutefois ne / peuvent vaincre ceux qui les sçavent prevoir, et les combattre par leur constance. AVD [Ulysses aboard with his followers experiences Neptune’s anger at sea, which through a horrible mixture of wind and waves exposes his fleet to the violence of the storm and warns him through this unexpected change that great projects are never without obstacles, which all the same cannot vanquish those who can foresee them and confront them through their constancy.]

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