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10 March 2024 - 14:15 (CET) -
1, place de l'Hôtel de Ville - 58000 Nevers
This previously unidentified canvas is the only known painted sketch of Charles Meynier's masterpiece Télémaque, pressé par Mentor, quitte l’île de Calypso (Telemachus, Urged on by Mentor, Leaves Calypso's Island), which earned him an auction record.
Charles Meynier (1763-1832), Télémaque, pressé par Mentor, quitte l'île de Calypso, c. 1800, oil on canvas, signed and dated. 46 x 60.5 cm/18.1 x 23.8 in. Estimate: €40,000/60,000
Charles Meynier (1763-1832), Télémaque, pressé par Mentor, quitte l'île de Calypso, c. 1800, oil on canvas, signed and dated. 46 x 60.5 cm/18.1 x 23.8 in. Estimate: €40,000/60,000
On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 in Nantes, Charles Meynier's painting Télémaque, pressé par Mentor, quitte l'île de Calypso sold to a British gallery for €2,232,000 (Ivoire - Couton-Veyrac-Jamault). A world record for this French artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, who made his mark with neoclassical history…
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