id:			171318
accession number:	2014.14
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Telemachus, Urged by Mentor, Leaving the Island of Calypso , 1800. Charles Meynier (French, 1768–1832). Pen and black ink and brown wash with black chalk ; sheet: 47.5 x 61.5 cm (18 11/16 x 24 3/16 in.); mounted: 51 x 66 cm (20 1/16 x 26 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2014.14

title:				Telemachus, Urged by Mentor, Leaving the Island of Calypso 
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creation date:			1800
creation date earliest:		1800
creation date latest:		1800
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creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	Pen and black ink and brown wash with black chalk 
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Charles Meynier (French, 1768–1832)  - artist
Charles Meynier was a recipient of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1789 and became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1815. A history painter, he created the grand decoration for ceilings of the Louvre (1819 and 1822), and produced numerous pictures glorifying the Napoleonic legend, which for the most part remain in the château de Versailles. Through the assistance of his brother Meynier Saint-Phal, a famous actor of the Comédie Française who paid for his studies, the artist entered the atelier of the painter François André Vincent (1746-1816), a principal rival of the master Jacques-Louis David. The studio in which Meynier received his training was known by the students of David as the atelier of the"perruques," (the wigs) the name given to royalists or conservatives during that period.
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measurements: Sheet: 47.5 x 61.5 cm (18 11/16 x 24 3/16 in.); Mounted: 51 x 66 cm (20 1/16 x 26 in.)
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	description:	laid paper
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	inscription:	Signed, lower left, in black ink: c Meynier f.t, and inscribed, lower left, in black ink:  1800; inscribed, verso, center in black ink: Télémaque pressé par Mentor,/quitte L'île de Calypso./composition dont le tableau a Reuni tour le Suffrages /au Sallon de 1801 gravé dans les annales de peintures/Meynier. invt Delineavit 1800, and, lower right, verso, in black ink: Meynier No 157
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'New York, Colnaghi, French Drawings, 1760-1880, 17 April - 23 May 1985, cat. no. 8, illustrated', 'opening_date': '1985-04-17T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Possibly, T. C. Bruun-Neergaard (1776-1824), Paris (possibly, his sale, Paris:  rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hôtel de Bullion [Gendron], 29 August - 7 September 1814, lot 243; Henri Baderou, Paris; Frederick J. Cummings (1933-1990), Detroit and New York, until 1985; Colnaghi, New York, 1985; Private collection, New York, until 2014
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Meynier, Charles, and Isabelle Mayer-Michalon. Meynier's Masterpiece: The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis : an Important Rediscovery from the Salon of 1800, London : Daniel Katz Gallery, 2019.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 14
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IMAGES

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