Mercury orders Calypso to let Odysseus leave, Gerard de Lairesse.
During his wanderings Odysseus meets the nymph Calypso, who falls in love with him and doesn't let him leave. Then Jupiter sends Mercury to her, ordering Odysseus to return to his wife. De Lairesse made this painting, together with several others about exemplary love and loyalty, for Mary Stuart's apartments in Paleis Soestdijk.
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