Ulysses and His Companions Fighting the Cicones Before the City of Ismaros, Study for a Destroyed Fresco in the Galerie d'Ulysee, Chateau de Fontainebleau

1555–60

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Red chalk highlighted with white gouache, on red-washed paper
Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 12 9/16in. (24.1 x 31.9cm)
Collection no.: 62.204.2
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Francesco Primaticcio. Ulysses and His Companions Fighting the Cicones Before the City of Ismaros, Study for a Destroyed Fresco in the Galerie d'Ulysee, Chateau de Fontainebleau. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Ulysses and His Companions Fighting the Cicones Before the City of Ismaros, Study for a Destroyed Fresco in the Galerie d'Ulysee, Chateau de Fontainebleau — Francesco Primaticcio. 1555–60.

Medium: Red chalk highlighted with white gouache, on red-washed paper. Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 12 9/16in. (24.1 x 31.9cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1962.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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