Before the shipwrecks, monsters and impossible choices, there is this face.

Ingres paints Ulysses under a hood, turned in profile, almost swallowed by shadow. He does not look heroic in the obvious way. He looks like a man who has spent years being tested by the sea, by the gods, and by his own desire to get home.

A dark, literary mythology art print for studies, reading corners and rooms with a taste for old stories and difficult men.