The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.
Max Resolution:4006×3419 PX
Title:The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis
Artists:Jacques-Louis David
Date:1818
Style:Neoclassicism
Genre:mythological painting
Medium:oil,canvas
Location:J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US
Dimensions:103×87 cm
Copyright:Public domain
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 and Psyche.