The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis [SEP] creator
The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis
The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis is an 1818 painting by Jacques-Louis David, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum. It was a commission by count Franz Erwein von Schonborn-Wiesentheid during David's exile in Brussels. It shows Telemachus and Eucharis, two characters in Fénelon's novel "Les Aventures de Télémaque", inspired by Homer's "Odyssey". It was the artist's last painting to show a couple from mythology, it was a pendant painting to his "Love
Eucharis (fiction)
Eucharis, who does not appear in Greek mythology, was one of the nymph Calypso's attendants in Fénelon's novel "Les Aventures de Télémaque" (1699). In Fénelon's modern prose epic, an improvisation upon Homeric themes, Telemachus while searching for his father, Odysseus, has been shipwrecked on Calypso's island, and there has fallen in love with Eucharis but must leave her, dutifully to pursue his quest.
Fénelon, in charge of the education of the heir to the French