Landscape with a Scene from Fénelon's Télémaque 1780

Jean Jacques Lagrenée’s “Landscape with a Scene from Fénelon's Télémaque” (1780) depicts a scene from Fénelon’s novel, “The Adventures of Telemachus.” Set against a moonlit landscape, the figures of Telemachus and his companions, Calypso and Mentor, are depicted fleeing a group of nymphs through the woods. The work, which is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is executed in black chalk and blue wash on paper, and showcases Lagrenée’s talents as a draftsman and painter.