Penelope (c.1868). Charles-François Marchal (French, 1825–1877). Oil on
Penelope (c.1868). Charles-François Marchal (French, 1825–1877). Oil on canvas. MMOA. Penelope and its pendant Phryne are typical of the scenes of fashionable life in Paris that Marchal painted in the decade prior to his suicide. Penelope is not represented as the legendary wife of Odysseus but as a contemporary woman, dutifully engaged in needlework as she dreams about her husband, portrayed in the miniature before her. -- source link
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