Odysseus and the Cattle of the Sun God
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1600
name: label: Artist
content: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Recto: Odysseus reclines asleep within a wooded, mountainous landscape. The setting is Thrinacia, island of Helios, the sun god. Odysseus’s ship appears moored in the background at right. His men appear in the middle distance, roasting Helios's cattle.
label: Description
content: Verso: Blank
place: label: made in
content: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1901-39-115
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Recto: Pen and brown ink, brush and wash over black chalk on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 7.3 × 10.7 cm (2 7/8 × 4 3/16 in.)