Homer's Women

Penelope and Odysseus

Nigel Bruce

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Penelope and Odysseus
Honoré Daumier: "Ulysses and Penelope” in The National Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens

This is Honoré Daumier's satirical take on Penelope and Odysseus reunited in the matrimonial bed (1842), from the series Histoire ancienne. A more conventional, if unusual, view is below - a Mannerist style painting by Francesco Primaticcio around 1560.

Primaticcio-Penelope-Odysseus
Toledo Museum of Art