Calypso trying to detain Ulysses as a child prepares his armour at right and Mercury falls from the sky

1531–76

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: sheet: 15 11/16 x 11 7/16 in. (39.8 x 29 cm) plate: 11 7/8 x 8 9/16 in. (30.1 x 21.8 cm)
Collection no.: 59.595.13
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Giulio Bonasone. Calypso trying to detain Ulysses as a child prepares his armour at right and Mercury falls from the sky. Giulio Bonasone; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Calypso trying to detain Ulysses as a child prepares his armour at right and Mercury falls from the sky — Giulio Bonasone. 1531–76.

Medium: Engraving. Dimensions: sheet: 15 11/16 x 11 7/16 in. (39.8 x 29 cm) plate: 11 7/8 x 8 9/16 in. (30.1 x 21.8 cm).

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

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1959.

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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