CHARLES MEYNIER
Paris 1763–1832 Paris
Télémaque, pressé par Mentor, quitte l’île de Calypso, 1800
Signed, lower left, c Meynier f.t, and inscribed, lower left, with the date, 1800; also, inscribed, verso, center, Télémaque pressé par Mentor,/quitte L’île de Calypso./composition dont le tableau a Reuni tous les Suffrages/au Sallon de 1801 gravé dans lse annales de peintures/Meynier. invt Delineavit 1800, and, lower right, Meÿnier No 157
Pen and black ink, with brown wash, over black chalk
18 ¹¹⁄₁₆ x 24 ⅛ inches
474 x 612 mm
Provenance
Possibly, T. C. Bruun-Neergaard (1776-1824), Paris (possibly, his sale, Paris: rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hôtel de Bullion [Gendron], 29 August - 7 September 1814, lot 243
Henri Baderou, Paris
Frederick J. Cummings (1933-1990), Detroit and New York, until 1985
Colnaghi, New York, 1985
Private collection, New York, until 2014
Exhibitions
New York, Colnaghi, French Drawings, 1760-1880, 17 April - 23 May 1985, cat. no. 8, illustrated
Literature
The Arts Council of Great Britain, London, The Age of Neo-Classicism, 1972, p. 384, no. 696, mentioned
I. Mayer-Michalon, Charles Meynier, 1763-1832, Paris, 2008, pp. 188-89, cat. no. D. 43, illustrated
THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART, CLEVELAND