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Présentée le 29 novembre 1715, cette oeuvre fut le morceau de réception à l'Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture de Jacques Bousseau (1681-1740). L'artiste illustre le chant XXI de l'Odyssée dans lequel Pénélope, après vingt ans d'attente et ayant perdu tout espoir de revoir Ulysse, se résigne à épouser le prétendant qui sera capable de bander l'arc de son mari et de traverser d'une flèche douze fers de hâche disposés à la file. Aucun prétendant n'y parvient. Ulysse, déguisé en mendiant, réussit sans difficulté l'épreuve, au grand effroi des prétendants.
Le département des Sculptures du musée du Louvre conserve plusieurs exemplaires de cette statue.
Jacques Bousseau presented this work on the 29th of November 1715 as his introductory piece to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.
The artist illustrates the 21st episode of Homer's Odyssey in which Penelope finally decides to marry the one of her suitors after waiting 20 years for the return of her beloved husband, Ulysses. Penelope agreed to marry the man who could stretch Ulysses' bow and shoot through twelve axe heads with only one arrow, and in this dynamic sculpture, Ulysses, dressed as a beggar, accomplishes the deed without any difficulty in front of the frightened suitors. Examples of this figure are exhibited in the sculpture department of the Louvre museum.
Le département des Sculptures du musée du Louvre conserve plusieurs exemplaires de cette statue.
Jacques Bousseau presented this work on the 29th of November 1715 as his introductory piece to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.
The artist illustrates the 21st episode of Homer's Odyssey in which Penelope finally decides to marry the one of her suitors after waiting 20 years for the return of her beloved husband, Ulysses. Penelope agreed to marry the man who could stretch Ulysses' bow and shoot through twelve axe heads with only one arrow, and in this dynamic sculpture, Ulysses, dressed as a beggar, accomplishes the deed without any difficulty in front of the frightened suitors. Examples of this figure are exhibited in the sculpture department of the Louvre museum.