The Sorrow of Telemachus is a 1783 oil painting by Angelica Kauffman. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]
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Artist | Angelica Kauffman |
Year | 1783 |
Medium | oil paint, canvas |
Dimensions | 83.2 cm (32.8 in) × 114.3 cm (45.0 in) |
Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Accession No. | 25.110.187 |
Identifiers | The Met object ID: 436809 |
This painting and Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso were painted for Monsignor Onorato Caetani (1742-1797) [it]. They show scenes from the French novel The Adventures of Telemachus published by François Fénelon in 1699, and based on the story of Telemachus, son of Odysseus.[1][2][3]
Telemachus was shipwrecked off Calypso's island, and in this image she tells her nymphs to stop singing Odysseus's praises because of his son's grief.[3]
Kauffman painted two other versions of this work: in 1788 (held by the Bündner Museum of Art [de] in Chur, Switzerland, and in 1789 (sold by Christie's in London in April 1998).[4]
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