A landscape in which Cephalus is returned to his wife Procris by his lover Aurora. Etching by J. Browne, 1777, after Claude Lorrain.

  • Lorrain, Claude, 1600-1682.
Date:
1777
Reference:
2855889i
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Description

The area in which the three figures would be are left blank. Left, densely leaved trees; right, a landscape based on the Roman Campagna, and the sea coast

Publication/Creation

1777

Physical description

1 print : etching ; image 42.6 x 57.4 cm

Lettering

Painted by Claude. Etched by J. Browne 1777

Edition

[Unfinished state: the etched parts have been completed but the engraved parts not, including the three figures of Cephalus, Procris and Aurora].

References note

D. Cecchi, L'opera completa di Claude Lorrain, Milan: Rizzoli, 1975, p. 118, no. 234

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2855889i

Reproduction note

After a painting in the opposite direction that had been in the collection of Clive of India (Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey) before his suicide in 1774, and subsequently passed by descent to the 3rd Earl of Plymouth (d. 2018)

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