Odysseus and Calypso
by LAIRESSE, Gérard de, Oil on canvas, 125 x 94 cm
King-Stadholder Willem III, one of the chief patrons at the end of the 17th century, commissioned from G�rard de Lairesse mythological love stories for the bedroom in his Soestdijk hunting lodge. Odysseus and Calypso belonged to this group of paintings.