Odysseus and Teiresias

Gerrit Pietersz Sweelinck

Artist, Dutch, 1566 - before 1612

Gerrit Pietersz Sweelinck

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall (approximate): 24.6 x 41.5 cm (9 11/16 x 16 5/16 in.)
    support: 33.8 x 50.4 cm (13 5/16 x 19 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1982.16.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Christie's London, 21 November 1958, no. 238B (as Spranger). (H. M. Calmann, London, 1960). David Rust, Washington, D.C.; purchased 1982 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1983

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., September 1983.

Bibliography

1959

  • Christie's, 11/20-11/21/58, 283B (as B. Spranger).

1976

  • Feinblatt, Ebria. Old master drawings from American collections. Los Angeles, 1976:189.

1999

  • Van Thiel, Pieter J. J. Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, 1562 - 1638. Doornspijk, 1999: p. 498, former attribution to Cornelisz van Haarlem rejected and attr. to Sweelinck..

Inscriptions

lower left: GP fe

Wikidata ID

Q64572010

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