# Ulysses and Nausicaa on the Island of the Phaeacians [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUBENS, Peter Paul]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on wood, 128 x 207 cm ## Commentary Ulysses and Nausicaa on the Island of the Phaeacians c. 1627 Oil on wood, 128 x 207 cm Galleria Palatina \(Palazzo Pitti\), Florence Nausicaa was doing the washing with her handmaidens when they came upon the shipwrecked and undressed Ulysses. Here she wears royal red as she falls in love at first sight. The king, her father, would equip a ship for Ulysses, but angry Poseidon would destroy it. ## Related artworks - [A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Albert and Nicolaas Rubens]() - [Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()