Telemachus, Urged by Mentor, Leaving the Island of Calypso
1800
Charles Meynier
Charles Meynier (French, 1768–1832)
Drawings
Telemachus, Urged by Mentor, Leaving the Island of Calypso , 1800. Charles Meynier (French, 1768–1832). Pen and black ink and brown wash with black chalk ; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2014.14
- Maker/Artist
- Meynier, Charles
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- Pen and black ink and brown wash with black chalk
- 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.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: 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
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 2014.14
- Credit Line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Exhibitions
- New York, Colnaghi, French Drawings, 1760-1880, 17 April - 23 May 1985, cat. no. 8, illustrated
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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