Jacques-Louis David, 1818 - The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis - fine art print

Overview

The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis was painted by the male French artist Jacques-Louis David. The version of the piece of art measures the size: 88,3 x 103,2 cm and was crafted with the techinque of oil on canvas. The piece of art is in the the The J. Paul Getty Museum's digital art collection in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. With courtesy of: The J. Paul Getty Museum (public domain license).The creditline of the artpiece is the following: . In addition to that, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with a side ratio of 1.2 : 1, which means that the length is 20% longer than the width. Jacques-Louis David was a male politician, painter, whose art style can primarily be classified as Neoclassicism. The European painter was born in 1748 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France and deceased at the age of 77 in the year 1825 in Brussels, Bruxelles region, Belgium.

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Fixing the viewer with a dreamy gaze, the fair-haired Telemachus grasps Eucharis's thigh with his right hand while holding his sword upright with the other. In the 1699 French novel Les Aventures de Télémaque, loosely based on characters from the Odyssey, the author Fénelon describes how Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, fell passionately in love with the beautiful nymph Eucharis. His duty as a son, however, required that he end their romance and depart in search of his missing father.

The ill-fated lovers say farewell in a grotto on Calypso's island. Facing towards us, Telemachus's blue tunic falls open to reveal his naked torso. Eucharis, seen in profile, encircles Telemachus's neck and gently rests her head upon his shoulder in resignation. In this way, Jacques-Louis David contrasts masculine rectitude with female emotion.

David painted The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis during his exile in Brussels. The use of saturated reds and blues contrasted with flesh tones and combined with a clarity of line and form typifies the Neoclassical style, which is characteristic of David's late history paintings.