The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis
The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis is a painting of 1818 by Jacques-Louis David, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum. It was commissioned by Count Franz Erwein von Schonborn-Wiesentheid during David's exile in Brussels. It depicts Telemachus and Eucharis, two characters in François Fénelon's novel Les Aventures de Télémaque, inspired by Homer's Odyssey. The artist's last painting of a couple from mythology, it is a pendant painting to his Love and Psyche.
Bibliography
- Helmut Engelhart, "The Early History of Jacques-Louis David's The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis ", The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, vol. 24, 1996, pp. 21–43
- Mary Vidal, "David's 'Telemachus and Eucharis' : Reflections on love, learning and history" in The Art Bulletin, December 2000.
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