Sujet

Penelope Unravelling Her Web, 1783-1784. Creator: Joseph Wright of Derby.

Légende

Penelope Unravelling Her Web, 1783-1784. The potter Josiah Wedgwood commissioned this painting from Joseph Wright of Derby as a tribute to female loyalty and industry. In Homer's Odyssey, Penelope, awaiting the return of her husband Odysseus from the Trojan War, was beset by suitors who claimed that Odysseus had been shipwrecked. She promised to marry one of them after she completed a shroud for her father-in-law. Steadfastly loyal to her absent husband, Penelope unravelled her weaving at the end of each day to avoid remarrying.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A63_288

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

56,8Mo (1,8Mo) / 42,0cm x 33,9cm / 4960 x 4005 (300dpi)

Mots clés

female women woman people family arts painting night parent threads sleep sleeping British lying color mother web motherhood century Britain asleep reclining parenting thread literature concept mythology roman mythology time of day lying down haberdashery mum oil Painting Colour daughter recumbent odyssey Greek mythology 18th century Eighteenth Century Penelope young women young woman Homer Wedgwood Thomas Wright Josiah Wedgwood Wright Thomas Joseph Wright of Derby Wright Joseph of Derby Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Josiah Wright Joseph of Derby Joseph Wright Wright Joseph Wright of Derby Joseph Painting Heritage Art oil paint (paint) Josiah Wedgewood Canvas (Textile Material)