Mantel Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis

The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis c1818 by French Painter Jacques-Louis David (1748 - 1825); considered to be the preeminent painter of the Neoclassical style. This painting depicts the characters Telemachus and Eucharis from the c1699 novel Les Aventures de Télémaque by the French Archbishop of Combrai François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon (1651 - 1715); which were inspired by Homer's Odeyssey. In Greek mythology Telemachus is the son of Odysseus and Penelope; while Eucharis who is not part of Greek mythology is one of the nymph Calypso's attendants in Fénelon's novel Les Aventures de Télémaque c1699. In the painting Eucharis who is wearing a reddish gold accent dress with a gold accent emerald green sash around her waist, a gold band around her hair and a brass cylinder with the artist last name David on it. She is embracing Telemachus; who is partially clothed with a blue robe with gold crown accents along its perimeter and has a white band with gold circles wrapped around his head. He also has a cord tied across his chest from which a brass horn is hanging from his right side with the date of the work and the letters BRVX engraved on it, as he rest his right hand on the left thigh of Eucharis; while holding a metal tipped spear in his left hand with his white dog looking up at him from between the spear and his left arm.