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The Return of Ulysses (?), Luca Penni

Luca Penni

The Return of Ulysses (?)

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The Return of Ulysses (?), ca. 1545 – 1555

Blatt: 238 x 275 mm

Physical Description: Brown ink over black pen (traces), brown washes, highlighted with gold, framing line with brown ink on all sides, on paper, distance of chain lines (vertical) |39|39|42|37|40|39|

Inventory Number: 419

Object Number: 419 Z

Status: Can be presented in the study room of the Graphische Sammlung (special opening hours)

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: The Return of Ulysses (?)

Draughtsman

Luca Penni

Production Place

Fontainebleau?

Period Produced

16th century

School

Object Type

drawing

Physical Description: Brown ink over black pen (traces), brown washes, highlighted with gold, framing line with brown ink on all sides, on paper, distance of chain lines (vertical) |39|39|42|37|40|39|

Material

Technique

Geographic Reference

Italian

Production Reason

Captions Added Later: Verso Marke des Kunsthändlers Guillaume-Jean Constantin, Paris (Lugt 3000) [?, nach Angabe der einschlägigen Inventarkarte zu der unterdessen kaschierten Rückseite]; Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark: Nicht vorhanden

Work Catalogues: Dimier 1900.484.3

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Iconclass

Primary

44BB152royal household; courtiers, retinue, train - BB - female ruler
31A233(+917)kneeling figure (+ beseeching)
31AA2311(+9164)'contrapposto', 'Standbein und Spielbein' - AA - female human figure (+ comforting, consoling)

Secondary

48C1621arcade ~ architecture
48C161(+72)column, pillar ~ architecture (+ styles in art ~ ancient historical period)
41A323monumental door, porch, 'aediculum'
41A422hangings and drapery
25I1city-view in general; 'veduta'
48C14architectural representations in general

Associative

96B241Dido leads Aeneas and his companions to her palace
94I21Ulysses is kindly received by the nymph Calypso on the island of Ogygia (Homer, Odyssey XII)
94I7Penelope and Ulysses reunited (Homer, Odyssey XXIII)

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18.07.2024