Raymond Auguste Quinsac Monvoisin / Telemachus and Eucharis / 1824

Raymond Auguste Quinsac Monvoisin
Telemachus and Eucharis
1824
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Creator Name: Monvoisin, Raymond Auguste Quinsac
Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Role: painter
Creator Dates/Places: 1794 - 1870
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Raymond Auguste Quinsac Monvoisin
Title: Telemachus and Eucharis
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1824
Creation End Date: 1824
Creation Date: 1824
Object Type: Paintings
Classification Term: oil on canvas
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: H.116 x W.99 in.
Inscriptions: SIGNATURE, DATE
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 78.25
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. Andrew A. Lynn
Rights: http://www.artsmia.org/restrictions.html
Context:

Telemachus (center) and Eucharis (left) were lovers forced to part. The story is from Greek mythology, as retold by the French writer Fénelon in 1699.

Telemachus had set out to find his father, Odysseus (Ulysses), the famous hero of the Trojan War. The goddess Athena (right) accompanied him disguised as his guardian, Mentor. They were shipwrecked on the island of the nymph Calypso, and Telemachus fell in love with Eucharis, one of Calypso's attendants. But Mentor intervened to part them, so the search for Odysseus could continue.

"Mentor...took Telemachus by the hand and led him towards the shore," wrote Fénelon. "Telemachus consented with silent reluctance, and looked behind him at every step." Neoclassical history paintings such as this were meant to be lessons in virtue, an duty invariably triumphs over love.

AMICA ID: MIA_.78.25
Component Measured: overall
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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