Mercury Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus

Mercury Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus

SK-A-212

signature: ‘G. Lairesse f.’

During his wanderings, Odysseus encounters the nymph Calypso, who falls in love with him and holds him captive on her island. Jupiter then sends Mercury to command her to let Odysseus return to his wife. Lairesse made this painting, together with several other works representing exemplary love and devotion, for Mary Stuart’s apartments in Soestdijk Palace.

painter: Gerard de Lairesse

c. 1680

olieverf op doek

height 132 cm x width 96 cm

nationalization 1795 1799

Public domain

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