Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus

Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus
Artist	J. M. W. Turner
Year	1829
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	132.7 cm × 203 cm (52.2 in × 80 in)
Location	National Gallery, London
Accession	NG508
Website	nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/joseph-mallord-william-turner-ulysses-deriding-polyphemus-homer-s-odyssey

ArtistJ. M. W. Turner

Year1829

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions132.7 cm × 203 cm (52.2 in × 80 in)

Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus is an 1829 oil painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner. It depicts a scene from Homer's Odyssey, showing Odysseus (Ulysses) standing on his ship deriding Polyphemus, one of the cyclopes he encounters and has recently blinded, who is disguised behind one of the mountains on the left side.^[1] Additional details include the Trojan Horse, a scene from Virgil's Aeneid, on one of the flags and the horses of Apollo rising above the horizon.^[2] This painting is thought to be quickly done as a replacement for previous paintings submitted to the academy that had been delayed.^[1] The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1829 at Somerset House and acquired by the National Gallery in 1856.^[3]

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v t e J. M. W. Turner
Paintings	Lambeth Palace (1790) Interior of a Romanesque Church (c. 1795–1800) Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow (c. 1795–1800) Diana and Callisto (c. 1796) Fishermen at Sea (1796) Interior of a Gothic Church (c. 1797) Limekiln at Coalbrookdale (c. 1797) Moonlight, a Study at Millbank (1797) Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus (c. 1798) Buttermere Lake (1798) Caernarvon Castle (c. 1798) Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland (1798) Shipping by a Breakwater (1798) Tivoli and the Roman Campagna (c. 1798) View of a Town (c. 1798) Dolbadarn Castle (1798–1799) Self-Portrait (c. 1799) View in Wales (c. 1799–1800) Welsh Mountain Landscape (c. 1799–1800) A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire (c. 1800) A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance (c. 1800) Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree (c. 1800) Dutch Boats in a Gale (1801) Jason (1802) Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage (1802) Bonneville, Savoy (1803) Calais Pier (1803) The Festival of the Opening of the Vintage at Mâcon (1803) View on Clapham Common (c. 1800–1805) The Deluge (1805) The Shipwreck (1805) Windsor Castle from the Thames (1805) Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen (1806) Walton Bridges (1806) A Country Blacksmith (1807) Sun Rising through Vapour (1807) Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour (1807) View of Richmond Hill and Bridge (1808) The Garreteer's Petition (1809) London from Greenwich Park (1809) Ploughing Up Turnips (1809) The Fifth Plague of Egypt (1810) High Street, Oxford (1810) Apollo and Python (1811) Saltash with the Water Ferry (1811) Hulks on the Tamar (1811) Teignmouth (1812) Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812) Frosty Morning (1813) Dido and Aeneas (1814) Dido building Carthage (1815) Crossing the Brook (1815) The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (1817) Raby Castle (1817) Dort or Dordrecht (1818) The Field of Waterloo (1818) Richmond Hill (1819) Entrance of the Meuse (1819) Rome, from the Vatican (1820) George IV at St Giles's, Edinburgh (1822) The Battle of Trafalgar (1822) The Bay of Baiae (1823) The Harbour of Dieppe (1825) Cologne (1826) Forum Romanum (1826) Mortlake Terrace (1826) Port Ruysdael (1826) The Chain Pier, Brighton (1828) Chichester Canal (1828) East Cowes Castle (1828) Regulus (1828) View of Orvieto (1828) Vision of Medea (1828) The Banks of the Loire (1829) The Loretto Necklace (1829) Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829) The Evening Star (1830) Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1830) Pilate Washing his Hands (1830) Caligula's Palace and Bridge (1831) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy (1832) The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay (1832) Staffa, Fingal's Cave (1832) The Fountain of Indolence (1834) The Golden Bough (1834) Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (1834) St Michael's Mount, Cornwall (1834) The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835) Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight (1835) Line Fishing, Off Hastings (1835) Rome, From Mount Aventine (1835) Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (c. 1835) Juliet and her Nurse (1836) The Fighting Temeraire (1838) Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1839) The Slave Ship (1840) Venice, the Bridge of Sighs (1840) Venice from the Giudecca (1840) Schloss Rosenau (1841) Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842) The Blue Rigi (1842) The Red Rigi (1842) Peace – Burial at Sea (1842) War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet (1842) Light and Colour (1843) Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844) Sunrise with Sea Monsters (1845) Norham Castle, Sunrise (c. 1845) Seascape: Folkestone (c. 1845) Whalers (c. 1845) Queen Mab's Cave (1846) The Departure of the Fleet (1850) The Beacon Light (unknown)
Prints	Liber Studiorum (1807–1819)
Museums	Sandycombe Lodge
Related	The Painter (2011 play) Mr. Turner (2014 film) Thomas Price Turner Turner Prize Turner Contemporary
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