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Jacques-Louis David: The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis (Getty Museum Studies on Art) by Dorothy Johnson; J. Paul Getty Museum is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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Jacques-Louis David’s mythological painting of the farewell of the young lovers Telemachus and Eucharis was created during the artist’s last years, when the return of the monarchy to France forced him into exile in Brussels. While several of David’s paintings from this period show his preoccupation with the psychology of love, none depicts the emotions more tenderly than this painting from 1818. The innocence and purity of the adolescents, as well as the depth of their emotions, are rendered with great mastery. Dorothy Johnson’s text explores the various strands in David’s life—from history painter to revolutionary and regicide to exile—that came together at the end of his life when he created some of his richest and most complex works. The author shows how his relationship with his family and friends may have dictated his choice of themes, and how his influence on the modern French school of painting continues to be strong, despite his life in exile. Jacques-Louis David: The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis is part of the Getty Museum Studies on Art series, designed to introduce individual works of note or small groups of related works to a broad public with an interest in th

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Author

Dorothy Johnson; J. Paul Getty Museum

Publisher

The J. Paul Getty Museum

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780892362363

Category

history

Subjects

Art, History, Arts

Rating

5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14