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Telemachus, Urged by Mentor, Leaving the Island of Calypso
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
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
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Charles Meynier (French, 1768–1832)
- Date
- 1800
- 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.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Accession no.
- 2014.14
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Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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