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Procris and Cephalus
Fontainebleau schoolSecond half of the sixteenth century
The Morgan Library & Museum
New York, United States
Perhaps the finest sheet of the Fontainebleau school in an American
collection, the subject of this sheet reflects the arcane themes in
vogue at the Valois court during the sixteenth century. Taken from
Ovid's Metamorphoses, the story of Procris and Cephalus recounts
how Cephalus accidentally killed his wife with his javelin while
hunting. The artist chose to depict the moment that Procris is struck by
the fatal instrument, before Cephalus reaches his dying wife.
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Details
- Title: Procris and Cephalus
- Creator: Fontainebleau school
- Creator Lifespan: Second half of the sixteenth century
- Date Created: Second half of the sixteenth century
- Credit Line: Purchased on the Fellows Fund, with the special assistance of Miss Alice Tully, Miss Julia P. Wightman, and the Thorne Foundation
- Type: Drawing
- External Link: http://www.themorgan.org/drawings/item/109926
- Medium: Brush and brown wash, some pen and brown ink, heightened with white, over preliminary indications in black chalk, with slight touches of red chalk
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