Oil on canvas. Italian school of the 19th century.
The myth of Procris and Cephalus is a famous and tragic story of love, jealousy and betrayal told in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Cephalus, a beautiful hunter, and Procris, princess of Athens, were the protagonists of a succession of misunderstandings and traps that led to her accidental death.
In particular, the scene proposed here depicts the tragic epilogue of the myth: Cephalus finds Procris dying, accidentally wounded by the spear of her unaware husband.
The scene depicted here looks to the model of Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, an important exponent of the Lombard Baroque, for the same dramatic setting of the figures, placed in a very different landscape, here not inhabited by other figures.
The painting was previously restored on canvas, with a new professional, extendable frame.
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PLATINUM Seller in Milano, Italy
