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The return of Agamemnon and Cassandra to Mycenae

Maker

After
(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

The return of Agamemnon and Cassandra to Mycenae

Medium

Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over graphite, some lines reinforced with black ink, with black ink framing lines on left and right sides of image, on pale pink-prepared laid paper, with an added strip along the upper edge; the image only takes up a portion of the sheet, and the pink wash is only in this area and not across the whole paper

Dimensions

Height: 24.3 cm
Width: 36.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.7.2

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. 215, under no. 7

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, black ink: .7.TvT.; lower right, black ink, ‘AvD’ in monogram: AvD; lower margin, black ink: L’heureuse arrivée d’Agamemnon en son pays, dont il baise la terre, avec une incroyable allegresse des siens, doit suffire / à mon advis pour faire advouer, que le lieu de notre naissance est à nos yeux le plus agreable de tous les objets, à l’esgal / duquel les autres beautes, quelques grandes qu’elles soient, nous semblent difformes. [Agamemnon’s happy arrival in his home country, where he kisses the ground, accompanied by the incredible joy of his fellow countrymen, acknowledges in my opinion that our place of birth is in our eyes the most pleasing of all, compared with which other beauties however large they may be seem misshapen/ugly to us.]

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