Odysseus and Teiresias

Gerrit Pietersz Sweelinck

Associated Names
Gerrit Pietersz Sweelinck

Artist, Dutch, 1566 - before 1612

This is a drawing of figures and creatures in a dramatic scene. The image shows a group of figures interacting, with some appearing to be in conflict. In the forefront, two figures are engaged in physical struggle, surrounded by other figures in various postures. The setting is an ambiguous cavernous environment with distant figures and rocky formations. The medium used is likely ink and wash, with a limited color palette.

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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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