Retrouvailles des Epouxs - Pl. XII from the "L'Odyssee" portfolio

Andre Masson

Retrouvailles des Époux is the final plate in L’Odyssée and depicts the final scene of Homer’s Odyssey. Odysseus has returned to Ithaca after his twenty-year absence but is unrecognized by his wife Penelope. Uncertain who is before her, she quickly dispatches a command to her maid to move a bed, a request that only Odysseus would know to be impossible. Penelope realizes that the stranger before her is husband and she embraces him and weeps.