Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso
Angelica Kauffmann
€39,90
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
Telemachus and the Nymphs of Calypso, painted in 1782 by Angelica Kauffmann, was executed in Rome for Monsignor Onorato Caetani shortly after the artist settled in the city and became a celebrated member of its sophisticated intellectual circles, which included Winckelmann and Mengs. The subject is drawn from François Fénelon's popular 1699 romance Télémaque, in which Telemachus, son of the Greek hero Odysseus, is shipwrecked on the island of the nymph Calypso and welcomed by her attendant nymphs.
Kauffmann, one of the most celebrated women painters of the eighteenth century and a founding member of Britain's Royal Academy, brings a refined Neoclassical grace and lyrical sensitivity to the mythological narrative. Her elegant figures and harmonious composition exemplify the cultivated, literary taste of her Roman patrons, situating the painting within the broader Neoclassical revival of classical antiquity then sweeping European art.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this museum-quality stretched canvas reproduction is printed on premium matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Angelica Kauffmann |
| Year | 1782 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 32 1/2 x 44 1/4 in. (82.6 x 112.4 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Rococo |
