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    Ulysses and Nausicaa, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Prellwitz, Henry, 1865-1940, painter.
    Title: 
    Ulysses and Nausicaa, (painting).
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    24 x 36 in. (61.0 x 91.4 cm).
    Description: 
    A scene from the beginning of the sixth book of Homer's The Odyssey in which Nausicaa and her attendants who are working at the edge of a forest come upon the naked Ulysses covering his body with a branch. Nausicaa bravely faces Ulysses, while her frightened attendants turn away.
    Subject: 
    Mythology -- Classical -- Ulysses
    Mythology -- Classical -- Nausicaa
    Literature -- Homer -- Odyssey
    Landscape -- Forest
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    National Academy of Design, 1083 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 10128
    Exhibitions: 
    National Academy of Design Eighty Seventh Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, 1912, (no. 241).
    References: 
    Owner, 1971: Registration Records.
    Dearinger, David B., ed., "Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design, Volume I, 1826-1925," New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press, (National Academy of Design), 2004, pg. 451.
    Illustration: 
    Dearinger, David B., ed., "Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design, Volume I, 1826-1925," New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press, (National Academy of Design), 2004, pg. 451.
    Note: 
    The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide.
    Repository: 
    Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
    Control Number: 
    IAP 36270634
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