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Odysseus and Calypso
Also titled Odysseus bij Calypso
Gerard de Lairesse (Liège, 1641–1711)
c. 1680
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 125 cm x width 94 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The Greek poet Homer recounts how the heroic warrior Odysseus found refuge on the island of the nymph Calypso. The Trojan War is over: Amor, the god of love, now teasingly places the battle helmet on Calypso’s head. Odysseus and Calypso instantly fall in love. This painting hung in the Soestdijk hunting lodge, in the apartment of Mary Stuart, the consort of William III.
