id: 156420 accession number: 1992.2 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.2 updated: 2019-09-18 08:01:33.406000 Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus, c. 1670. Gerard de Lairesse (Flemish, 1641-1711). Oil on canvas; framed: 118.5 x 140 x 9 cm (46 5/8 x 55 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.); unframed: 91.4 x 113.7 cm (36 x 44 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1992.2 title: Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1670 creation date earliest: 1665 creation date latest: 1675 current location: 215 French, German, and Dutch creditline: Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund copyright: --- culture: Netherlands, 17th century technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Gerard de Lairesse (Flemish, 1641-1711) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 118.5 x 140 x 9 cm (46 5/8 x 55 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.); Unframed: 91.4 x 113.7 cm (36 x 44 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Selected Acquisitions opening date: 1993-02-09T05:00:00 Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Exhib.: CMA 1993: "Selected Acquisitions," Bull., 80 (Feb., 1993), p. 55, repr.
MFA Boston, 1993: "The Age of Rubens," cat. no. 132, repr. (also to: Toledo (OH), Museum of Art)
Approved: Trustees' Minutes 12/7/1992

Selected Acquisitions, CMA, January 28-April 26, 1992: (The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 1993, cat. no. 23, repr.)
The Age of Rubens, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, September 22, 1993-January 2, 1994; Toledo Museum of Art, February 2-April 24, 1994:cat. no. 132, repr. --- PROVENANCE Thomas Wodehouse Legh, 2nd Baron Newton [1857-1942], Cheshire, upon his death, probably held in trust by the estate date: Until 1946 footnotes: * The 1946 Sotheby’s auction catalogue includes this painting as part of the property of the “Rt. Hon. Lord Newton.” The Right Honourable Lord Newton was Thomas Wodehouse Legh, who died in 1942 [b. 1857]. His oldest son, Richard Legh, presented Lyme Park, the family’s estate, to the National Trust in 1946, and in October of that year, a portion of the library at Lyme Park was sold at auction. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to think that he may also have sold paintings from his father’s collection at auction that same year. citations: * Sotheby's (Firm). Fine Pictures and Drawings. 1946. page number: url: (Sale, Sotheby’s London, July 17, 1946, lot 63, sold to Julius Singer)1 date: 1946 footnotes: * The auction catalogue attributes the painting to [Jacques] Blanchard and titles it “Mars and Venus.” However, the dimensions are the same as those of the CMA painting, and Johnny van Haeften did identify the two paintings as one and the same, in terms of both their compositions and provenances. citations: * Sotheby's (Firm). Fine Pictures and Drawings. 1946. page number: url: (Julius Singer, London, probably sold to a Rio de Janeiro private collector) date: 1946- footnotes: * The price list inserted into the Sotheby’s sale catalogue identifies the buyer of the painting as “Singer,” and Johnny van Haeften situated the painting with a “J. Singer” prior to the Rio de Janeiro collector. The file on the painting in the RKD image database identifies him as Julius Singer, an art dealer in London. citations: * Sotheby's (Firm). Fine Pictures and Drawings. 1946. page number: url: * "RKD Images," Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie, https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images#query=, accessed March 23, 2015. page number: url: Private collection, Rio de Janeiro date: Until 1991 footnotes: citations: * Jeff Pilkington, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, June 3, 2013, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: (Christie’s, New York, sale, Oct. 9, 1991, lot 195, sold to Johnny van Haeften, Ltd.) date: 1991 footnotes: citations: * Johnny van Haeften, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 16, 2014, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: * Jeff Pilkington, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, June 3, 2013, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: * Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. Old Master Paintings. New York: Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc, 1991. page number: url: (Johnny van Haeften, Ltd., London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1991-1992 footnotes: citations: * Johnny van Haeften, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Jan. 16, 2014, in CMA curatorial file. page number: url: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio date: 1992- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Calypso, reclining on her bed, looks at us with the same charming smile she used on Odysseus. digital description: wall description: The Greek goddess Calypso held the hero Odysseus captive for seven years, preventing his return home from the Trojan War. Despite Calypso’s charms and the luxurious surroundings, Odysseus longed for his home and family, so the Olympian gods finally allowed his freedom. Here, the god Hermes swoops down to free Odysseus from Calypso’s embrace. De Lairesse, popularly known as the “Dutch Poussin,” introduced to the Netherlands a classicizing style influenced by artists of the French Academy. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.2/1992.2_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.2/1992.2_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1992.2/1992.2_full.tif