By Kind Permission of a Private Collection
By Kind Permission of a Private Collection
Claude Lorraine, Landscape with Cephalus and Procris reunited by Diana (1642), (Oil on canvas, 101.6 x 132.1 cm); National Gallery, no. 2. Claude's source for this painting was Ovid's Metamorphoses and its account of the separation and reunion of Procris with her husband Cephalus. The goddess Diana is included in Claude's version of the narrative but was not part of the Ovid's account. The National Gallery collection also includes a work painted in the style of Claude (National Gallery no. 55) that represents Cephalus'accidental killing of his wife. The 1995 National Gallery Catalogue notes that the painting corresponds with sheet number 91 from Claude's Liber Veritatis, 'which records the painting having been executed for an unnamed patron in Paris' ( Baker and Henry, National Gallery Catalogue, p.125). The painting became part of the National Gallery collection in 1824 when it was bought with the J.J.Angerstein collection.
Claude Gellée (le Lorrain) 1600-82
Landscape with Cephalus and Procris reunited by Diana 1645
Oil on canvas, 101.6x132.1cm
Provenance: La Livre de Jully, probably by 1757; bought with the J.J. Angerstein collection, 1824
Further Comments: This picture is described as 'morning landscape, with the large group of trees and high single-arched bridge'.
Collection: National Gallery, London