Telemachus was shipwrecked off Calypso's island, and in this image she tells her nymphs to stop singing Odysseus's praises because of his son's grief.[3]
Other versions
Kauffman painted two other versions of this work: in 1788 (held by the Bündner Museum of Art [de] in Chur, Switzerland, and in 1789 (sold by Christie's in London in April 1998).[4]
^ abBaetjer, Katharine (2009). "Angelika Kauffmann". British Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 138–142. ISBN9781588393487. Retrieved 12 June 2017.