Plate 26: Ulysses escaping on a raft with the aid of the sea deity Leucothea
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 13 7/8 in. × 12 in. (35.2 × 30.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1962
Accession Number
62.602.525(21)
Art Historical Context
In the turbulent waters depicted in *Plate 26: Ulysses on a raft with the aid of the sea deity Leucothea we witness a dramatic moment from Homer's *Odsey*. Here, the resourceful hero Odysseus, shipwrecked and adrift, receives divine aid from Leucothea (the goddess Ino in mortal guise), who offers him her veil to buoy him safely to shore. This 1756 etching and engraving captures the epic's themes of peril, ingenuity, and divine intervention, resonating with 18th-century audiences fascinated by classical antiquity during the Enlightenment. Crafted collaboratively by Gabriel Söderling, Bartolome...
About the Artist
Gabriel Söderling|Bartolomeo Crivellari|Pellegrino Tibaldi|Giampietro Zanotti (Swedish|Italian| |Italian) · 1700 |1700 | |1527 –1800 |1800 | |1596
Swedish, active 1756|Italian, active 18th century| |Italian, Puria di Valsolda 1527–1596 Milan