2 prints after Francesco Primaticcio (1504-1570), by Theodoor van Thulden (1606-1669) - Ulysses, dressed as a beggar & Ulysses and the beggar Irus

Two good impressions on laid paper. One with watermark.

Print 1
Plate 35: Ulysses, dressed as a beggar and standing outside the palace at Ithaca, receives some food from one of the maidservants; his dog is seen sleeping on the right; after Primaticcio and Niccolò dell' Abbate. c.1633


Print 2
Plate 37: Ulysses and the beggar Irus, with the two men seen wrestling in the left foreground, outside the palace at Ithaca, beyond at left Ulysses dragging the defeated beggar by the foot, and in the distance, a servant washing the feet of Ulysses in front of a fireplace, and Penelope expressing surprise as she recognizes her husband; after Primaticcio and Niccolò dell' Abbate. c.1633
Etching

From a series of fifty-eight plates representing the works of Ulysses, after the frescoes designed by Primaticcio and painted by Niccolò dell' Abate for the walls of the Gallery of Ulysses, in Fontainebleau (c.1555-1560). The preparatory drawings are now in the Albertina, Vienna. These drawings, the plates and some literary descriptions are the main sources of information we have on the Galerie d'Ulysse, which is now destroyed.

Bibliographic references
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (86)
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (84)

(British Museum)

Condition is good. An seventeenth century impression. Slight foxing on verso.