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The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis is a painting from 1818 by Jacques-Louis David, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. Painted during David's exile in Brussels, it was purchased by the Count von Schönborn-Wiesentheid.[1] It depicts Telemachus and Eucharis, two characters in François Fénelon's 1699 novel Les Aventures de Télémaque, inspired by Homer's Odyssey. The artist's last painting of a couple from mythology, it is a pendant painting to his Love and Psyche.
- ^ Engelhart, Helmut (1996). "The Early History of Jacques-Louis David's 'The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis". The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal. 24: 21–43.