The return of Agamemnon and Cassandra to Mycenae
Maker
After
(artist)
1606-1669
After
(artist)
1504-1570
(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
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
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.]
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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