Artwork

Telemachus, Urged by Mentor, Leaving the Island of Calypso

Telemachus, Urged by Mentor, Leaving the Island of Calypso, by Charles Meynier, 1800
Telemachus, Urged by Mentor, Leaving the Island of Calypso, by Charles Meynier, 1800

Telemachus, Urged by Mentor, Leaving the Island of Calypso is a drawing by the Romanticist artist Charles Meynier. It dates from 1800 and is held in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

Artist & collection

Portrait of Charles Meynier

Artist

Charles Meynier

Charles Meynier (1763 or 1768, Paris – 1832, Paris) was a French painter of historical subjects in the late 18th and early 19th century. He was a contemporary of Antoine-Jean Gros and Jacques-Louis David.

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