# Telemachus and Calypso

- By: Benjamin West (American, 1738 - 1820)
- Date: c. 1809
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: overall: 104.1 × 149.2 cm (41 × 58 3/4 in.) ; framed: 125.73 × 149.23 cm (49 1/2 × 58 3/4 in.)
- Culture: American
- Credit line: Corcoran Collection (Gift of Bernice West Beyers, 1963)
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.177101.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/312eb9af-d241-4b3c-9ae1-fc231669bbb1/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)