Handmade reproduction oil painting The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis is a painting from 1818 by Jacques-Louis David

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 The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis is a painting from 1818 by Jacques-Louis David, now in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. Painted during David's exile in Brussels, it was purchased by the Count von Schönborn-Wiesentheid.It depicts Telemachus and Eucharis, two characters in François Fénelon's 1699 novel Les Aventures de Télémaque, inspired by Homer's Odyssey. The artist's last painting of a couple from mythology, it is a pendant painting to his Love and Psyche.

David began The Farewell of Telemachus and Eucharis after his 1816 exile to Brussels, following the Bourbon return to the French throne. David may have started the painting on his own initiative, or an unknown patron may have suggested the subject to him. At some point between 1817 and early 1818, while David was at work on the painting, the Count von Schönborn heard about the project. He visited David's new studio in Brussels to discuss purchasing the work. After Schönborn agreed to acquire the painting, an announcement was made in L'Oracle, a Brussels newspaper. It read: "This painting is destined for a great lord from Bavaria for whom it was made." The statement highlighted that a prominent figure would own the work while maintaining the Count's anonymity.

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