The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis
1818 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions 88.3 × 103.2 cm
Collection: Art Whisperer
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.
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The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis (1818) by Jacques-Louis David, oil on canvas, from the Art Whisperer collection.
About Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (French:30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.
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