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Telemague and Calypso
Collection:CSM Museum & Study Collection
Date: c.1790-1810
Dimensions:
Image: 1020 x 1300 mm (102 x 130 cm)
Medium: Linen and cotton
Object number: T.111.1
DescriptionScene of nymph and suitor (?) derived from painting of 1722 by Jean Raoux, itself inspired by Fenelon's 'Aventures de Telemague' published in 1699. Plates for cloth used for several decades; first known c.1790.
Télémaque et Calypso (Telemachus and Calypso), also Télémaque or Calypso, is an opera by the French composer André Cardinal Destouches, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 29 November 1714. It takes the form of a 'tragédie en musique' in a prologue and five acts.
The libretto is by Simon-Joseph Pellegrin. The plot is taken from Les Aventures de Télémaque by François Fénelon, itself adapted from Homer's Telemachy: Telemachus is shipwrecked while searching for his father Ulysses, and resists seduction by the sea-nymph Calypso because of his love for the shepherdess Eucharis.
Télémaque et Calypso (Telemachus and Calypso), also Télémaque or Calypso, is an opera by the French composer André Cardinal Destouches, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 29 November 1714. It takes the form of a 'tragédie en musique' in a prologue and five acts.
The libretto is by Simon-Joseph Pellegrin. The plot is taken from Les Aventures de Télémaque by François Fénelon, itself adapted from Homer's Telemachy: Telemachus is shipwrecked while searching for his father Ulysses, and resists seduction by the sea-nymph Calypso because of his love for the shepherdess Eucharis.