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Mercury Orders Calypso to Allow Ulysses Depart

c. 1670

Gerard de Lairesse

(Flemish, 1641–1711)
publisher

Nicolaes Visscher

(Netherlandish, 1649–1702)
Culture
Netherlands
Medium
etching
Measurements
Sheet: 42.7 x 53.3 cm (16 13/16 x 21 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 61 cm (18 x 24 in.); Platemark: 35.7 x 47.9 cm (14 1/16 x 18 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of James A. Bergquist in Loving Memory of Katherine Lee Reid 2023.210
Catalogue raisonné
Timmers 1942; Gérard Lairesse 32, LeBlanc 52
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

A painting by this artist of the same subject is also in the museum’s collection (see 1992.2).

Description

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.

Mercury Orders Calypso to Allow Ulysses Depart

c. 1670

Gerard de Lairesse, Nicolaes Visscher

(Flemish, 1641–1711), (Netherlandish, 1649–1702)
Netherlands

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