Cleveland Museum of Art
Mercury Orders Calypso to Allow Ulysses Depart
Gerard de LairesseLinkedCulture matchlcp-52b63bfbfcaa
- Date
- c. 1670
- Medium
- etching
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 663276
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
In Homer’s Odyssey , Odysseus spends seven years captive to the nymph Calypso. Despite Calypso’s charms, Odysseus longed to return home to his family. In this composition, De Lairesse depicts the moment when the Olympian gods intervene, sending Hermes to release Odysseus from Calypso’s captivity. The Dutch De Lairesse brought French artistic taste to the Netherlands, reflected here in the firmly modeled, idealized figures and classical architecture. A painting by this artist of the same subject is also in the museum’s collection (see 1992.2).
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- Credit line
- Gift of James A. Bergquist in Loving Memory of Katherine Lee Reid
- Provenance
- ?–2023: (James Bergquist, Boston, MA), given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | December 4, 2023–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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