TÉLÉMAQUE RENDU A LA VERTU. Son coeur, que trop longtemps Eucharis occupa, Rompit un jour enfin ce honteux esclavage: Et ce jeune héros, beau, frais, gros, gras et.... sage. Dit à Mentor joyeux: Allons chercher papa. Fénélon, L. XII.

Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M. · 1842

Here Telemachos, the son of Ulysses and Penelope, has regained his virtue through the teachings of Mentor. During the 1840's, a quarrel between painters of the classic and romantic schools had fully flared up. Delacroix asked the "loaded" question: "Who is going to liberate us from the old Greeks?" Daumier succeeded to answer it his own way by showing historic personalities such as Hercules, Pygmalion or Agamemnon in absurd situations.