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Ulysses’s arrival in the underworld

Maker

After
(artist)
1606-1669

After
(artist)
1504-1570

Title

Ulysses’s arrival in the underworld

Medium

Pen and black ink, black chalk, touches of white chalk, on pale pink-prepared laid paper, laid down on a historic secondary support, also laid paper, likely a former album page

Dimensions

Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 31.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1948.XX.21.8.2

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. 245, under no. 21

Inscriptions

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

Inscription: Recto: lower right, black ink, ‘AvD’ in monogram: .21.TvT.AvD; lower margin, black ink: Suivant le conseil de circé, ulÿsse se resout à une triste navigation, et prend terre pour descendre / aux Enfers; de quoy l’on tire cette instruction, que les grands heros entreprennent tout, et qu’ils / se hazardent aux choses les plus difficiles, pour en tirer de la gloire. [Following Circe’s advice, Ulysses commits himself to a sad journey and lands in order to descend to Hades. From which one learns that the great Heroes undertake everything, and that they stop at nothing to commit themselves to the most difficult tasks in order to achieve fame.]

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