{"product_id":"lips-odysseus-gates-of-hades-giclee-print","title":"Johann Heinrich Lips – Odysseus at the Gates of Hades, 1785 | Giclée Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eOdysseus has dug the pit at the edge of the world and poured the offering, and the dead have come up to it. He stands with his sword drawn — in Homer he keeps the shades back from the blood until the seer Tiresias has spoken. At his feet a veiled woman reaches towards him: his mother Anticlea, who died while he was away and whom he may not touch. Behind her the armed dead wait their turn; at the left the crowd of shades presses in, drawn in thin brown ink and left half-finished, as though they were not quite there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is Book 11 of the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e, the passage that gave the underworld to European literature. Lips drew it in 1785 in pen and brown ink over grey wash, with ruled framing lines — a finished sheet, not a study, of the kind an engraver made when the print was the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho made it.\u003c\/strong\u003e Johann Heinrich Lips (1758–1817) came from Kloten near Zurich, made his name engraving the plates for Lavater's \u003cem\u003ePhysiognomische Fragmente\u003c\/em\u003e, and later worked in Weimar in Goethe's circle. A Swiss draughtsman's Greece, drawn from Homer and from casts, at the moment when neoclassicism was becoming the common language of Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this is.\u003c\/strong\u003e A giclée reproduction printed with pigment inks — not a drawing, and not sold as one. The original is a unique sheet in Chicago.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eScale\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eOriginal: 45.4 × 67 cm \/ 17.9 × 26.4 in — Art Institute of Chicago\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e100 × 70 cm \/ 39.4 × 27.6 in\u003c\/strong\u003e — original size, 1:1. Image 67.54 × 46.41 cm.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e70 × 50 cm \/ 27.6 × 19.7 in\u003c\/strong\u003e — reduced, 0.87× original. Image 58.80 × 40.11 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt original size the sheet is the size Lips drew it, ruled border and all. The smaller sheet is a reduction, not an enlargement — we never scale a drawing up beyond what the file honestly carries, and here it does not need to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe drawing is reproduced whole, including its ruled framing lines and the tone of the blued-white laid paper. Nothing is cropped away but the museum's mount.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProvenance\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nJohann Heinrich Lips (Swiss, 1758–1817), \u003cem\u003eOdysseus, at the Doors of Hades, Meets the Shades of Tiresias and Anticlea\u003c\/em\u003e, 1785; pen and brown ink and black ink wash, with brown ink wash, on blued-white laid paper, 45.4 × 67 cm.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Margaret Day Blake Endowment Fund, Acc. No. 2023.3178.\u003cbr\u003e\nPublic domain. The museum publishes its digitisation under CC0.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe print\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nGiclée on 200 gsm FSC-certified fine art paper, twelve pigment inks. White border, optical centre. The paper tone of the original is kept, not corrected. Unframed. Shipped rolled in a tube.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Museartis","offers":[{"title":"70 × 50 cm \/ 27.6 × 19.7 in — Reduced, 0.87× original","offer_id":65761995260253,"sku":"MUS-019-7050","price":89.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true},{"title":"100 × 70 cm \/ 39.4 × 27.6 in — Original size, 1:1","offer_id":65761995293021,"sku":"MUS-019-10070","price":129.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1102\/7139\/8237\/files\/MUS-019_OdysseusHades_plate.jpg?v=1788247743","url":"https:\/\/museartis.com\/products\/lips-odysseus-gates-of-hades-giclee-print","provider":"Museartis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}