Telemachus, Urged by Mentor, Leaving the Island of Calypso

Charles Meynier1800

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Title: Telemachus, Urged by Mentor, Leaving the Island of Calypso
Creator: Charles Meynier (French, 1768-1832)
Date Created: 1800
Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 47.5 x 61.5 cm (18 11/16 x 24 3/16 in.); Mounted: 51 x 66 cm (20 1/16 x 26 in.)
Provenance: Possibly, T. C. Bruun-Neergaard (1776-1824), Paris (possibly, his sale, Paris: rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hôtel de Bullion [Gendron], 29 August - 7 September 1814, lot 243; Henri Baderou, Paris; Frederick J. Cummings (1933-1990), Detroit and New York, until 1985; Colnaghi, New York, 1985; Private collection, New York, until 2014
Type: Drawing
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2014.14
Medium: Pen and black ink and brown wash with black chalk
Inscriptions: Signed, lower left, in black ink: c Meynier f.t, and inscribed, lower left, in black ink: 1800; inscribed, verso, center in black ink: Télémaque pressé par Mentor,/quitte L'île de Calypso./composition dont le tableau a Reuni tour le Suffrages /au Sallon de 1801 gravé dans les annales de peintures/Meynier. invt Delineavit 1800, and, lower right, verso, in black ink: Meynier No 157
Department: Drawings
Culture: France, 19th century
Credit Line: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
Collection: DR - French
Accession Number: 2014.14

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