Mercury Orders Calypso to Allow Ulysses Depart

Gerard de Lairesse

Cleveland Museum of Art

Black and white drawing on off-white background. A cloudy sky is in the background, obscuring the top of a building with columns. A tree is on the left. Three figures are in the foreground in a yard. A woman with long, curly hair sits on the left. She is wearing a toga-like garment with her right leg exposed and her right foot on a low stool. A man with curly hair sits on a bed to her right. He is shirtless with one arm raised and one leg extended. A winged man leans over the bed from a cloud. A man with a feathered headdress stands to the right. A large vase is behind him. A decorative vase is on the wall behind the group. A block of cursive writing is on the bottom left.