Odysseus and Calypso

The nymph Calypso pleads with Odysseus to remain on her enchanted island, while the shipwrecked hero gazes seaward, resolved to leave. Gerard de Lairesse — the fashionable Amsterdam history painter whose statuesque classicism shaped the Dutch Baroque stage — gives the pair an air of theatrical grandeur, Calypso’s rich drapery catching the last light of their parting.