Ulysses stealing Helio's cattle

Details

Circle of Francesco Primaticcio (Bologna 1504-1570 Paris)
Ulysses stealing Helio's cattle
red chalk heightened with white on pink prepared paper
9½ x 12 7/8 in. (24.2 x 32.7 cm.)

Provenance

Brunet (according to the Woodburn sale catalogue).
Sir Joshua Reynolds (L. 2364), possibly with his inscription on the mount '...The storm.../The companions of Ulysses killing/the oxen of the Sun.'
Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445).
Samuel Woodburn; Christie's, 6 June 1860, part of lot 638 (£5 10s to Clement; as 'Ulysses binding his crew; the crew of Ulysses carrying off the oxen of Apollo; and another from the same history; painted at Fontainebleau - red chalk, From the Collections of Brunet, Sir J. Reynolds, &c.')

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Lot Essay

This composition is after the 27th panel in the Galerie d'Ulysse at Fontainebleau, which Primaticcio painted in 1540, and which was destroyed in 1743. Primaticcio's preparatory drawing is in the Albertina, Vienna (S. Béguin et al., La galerie d'Ulysse à Fontainebleau, Paris, 1985, pp. 257-59).

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