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Rubens, Peter Paul

Siegen, Westphalia (Germany), 1577 - Antwerp (Belgium), 1640

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Cephalus and Procris

1636 - 1637. Oil on panel.
Room 079

Fearing she was a victim of infidelity, Procris followed her beloved Cephalus to a clearing in the woods, where he was resting during a hunting expedition. The young woman´s jealousy led her to her death when Cephalus mistook her for wild game and shot her with an arrow. Rubens chose to depict that story from Ovid´s Metamorphoses in this preparatory sketch for a painting intended to decorate the Torre de la Parada. The definitive painting by Peeter Symons was often mistakenly thought to represent the story of Vertumnus and Pomona. Rubens uses models taken from Renaissance art, including Michelangelo´s sculpture of Lorenzo de Medici, on which he based the figure of Procris.

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Inventory number
P002459
Author
Rubens, Peter Paul
Title
Cephalus and Procris
Date
1636 - 1637
Technique
Oil
Support
Panel
Dimension
Height: 27 cm; Width: 28.6 cm
Series
Torre de la Parada
Provenance
Manuel Álvarez de Toledo y Lesparre, 12th Duke of Pastrana, 1886; bequest of María Dionisia Vives y Zires, Duchess of Pastrana, 1889

Bibliography +

Rooses, Max, Rubens. S. VIe et Ses Oeuvres, Flammarion, Paris, 1903, pp. 599-596.

Díaz Padrón, Matías, Museo del Prado. Catálogo de pinturas. Escuela flamenca, Museo del Prado; Patrimonio Nacional de Museos, Madrid, 1975, pp. 306.

Held, Julius S., The oil sketches of Peter Paul Rubens : a critical catalogue..., The National Gallery of Art, Princeton, 1980, pp. 265.

Díaz Padrón, Matías, El siglo de Rubens en el Museo del Prado: catálogo razonado, Prensa Ibérica, Barcelona, 1995, pp. 1044.

Vergara, Alejandro, The Presence of Rubens in Spain., I II, A Bell & Howell Company, Ann Arbor, 1999, pp. 547.

Posada Kubissa, Teresa, Rubens en la colección Pastrana-Infantado, Boletín del Museo del Prado, XXI, 2003, pp. 24-40.

Classical mythology in the Netherlands in the age of Renaiss..., Peeters, Amberes, 2009.

Georgievska-Shine, Aneta Silver, Larry, Rubens, Velázquez, and the King of Spain, Ashgate, Surrey, 2014, pp. 69 Lám.15 fg.3.15.

Silver, L, 'Ruben's Myths for the Rey Planeta at the Torre de la Parada' En: The Age of Rubens: diplomacy, dynastic politics and the visual arts in Early Seventeenth century., Brepols,, 2016, pp. 235-254 [241 f.5].

Vergara, Alejandro, 'P.P.Rubens. Serie de la Torre de la Parada', En: Rubens: Pintor de bocetos, Museo Nacional del Prado,, Madrid, 2018, pp. 208-222 n.72.

Other inventories +

Inv. Nuevas Adquisiciones (iniciado en 1856). Núm. 864.
Autor P.P. Rubens / 864. Un cuadro titulado 'Vertumno y Pomona' / Alto 0,29 ancho 0,32.

Inscriptions +

T.864.
Inscribed in blue. Front, lower left corner

3
Inscribed. Back, central area

A-3
Inscribed. Back, right side

No 32./Coleccion/Pastrana
Handwritten label in black ink. Back, central area

nº17?
Inscribed. Back, lower right area

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Bonn
07.10.1999 - 23.01.2000

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Room 079 (On Display)

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