The Return of Ulysses ; Alcmaeon
François Xavier Pascal Fabre, French, 1766 - 1837
about 1813
Etching and aquatint on wove paper
Plate: 7 3/8 × 9 3/16 in. (18.8 × 23.3 cm)
Sheet: 12 13/16 × 18 5/16 in. (32.5 × 46.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund
PR.995.29
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower left margin: F.X. Fabre inv. et sculp.
Course History
ARTH 49, European Art in the Age of Revolution (1750-1850), Katie Hornstein, Fall 2013
CLST 4, Classical Mythology, Pramit Chaudhuri, Summer 2014
ARTH 48, Rococo to Neoclassicism, Kristin O'Rourke, Fall 2014
ARTH 41.03, European Art 1750 - 1850, Allan Doyle, Summer 2019
Exhibition History
A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth Century European Prints from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 9, 1995-February 4, 1996, no. 25.
Remembrance of Things Past: Prints and Photographs from the Class of 1935 Memorial Fund, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 9-September 3, 2000.
Representations of the Body in Space from the Renaissance to the Present: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 3-March 15, 1998.
Teaching the History of Western Art 1500-Present, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ArtH2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 27-March 11, 2001.
Publication History
Richard Rand, "A Decade of Collecting, 1985-1995: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century European Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1995, no. 25.
T. Barton Thurber, European Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2008, p.174, ill., no. 106.
Provenance
Paul Proute S.A., Paris, France; sold to present collection, 1995.
Catalogue Raisonne
Baudicour (1859), Vol. 1: 322.5
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