{"id":7859,"date":"2012-12-11T17:39:37","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T22:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/?page_id=7859"},"modified":"2013-02-21T17:39:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T22:39:43","slug":"l-63","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/catalogues\/lost-works\/l-63\/","title":{"rendered":"L.63 Rosso? Cephalus and Procris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1530-1540<\/p>\n<p>Painting, Cabinet des Peintures, Ch\u00e2teau, Fontainebleau.<\/p>\n<p>The inventory of 19 January 1692 (verified in October, 1694) of the Cabinet des Peintures at Fontainebleau (Herbet, 1937, 94) records: \u201cUn C\u00e9phale et Procris, peint sur bois, du Rousse\u201d (mentioned by B\u00e9guin in Cox-Rearick, 1972, 5; in Carroll, 1987, 341, n. 2, under no. 106; and in Scailli\u00e9rez, 1992, 18, with attribution to Rosso as made by d\u2019Estrechy).\u00a0 A print ascribed to Boyvin of this subject was designed by Rosso around 1538-1540 (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2012\/04\/E.14-Boyvin-Cephalus-Procrus-Vienna.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.E.14<\/a>) but it shows the figures in two separate niches, as does the related drawing (<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/files\/2012\/09\/D.76B-Cephalus-and-Procis.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\">Fig.D.76B<\/a>).\u00a0 It is likely, although not certain, that this image is not related to the lost panel painting.\u00a0 If this picture was actually by Rosso, it is most likely that it was painted in France unless it was brought from Italy after his death.\u00a0 But there is no indication that Rosso ever painted a wholly non-religious subject before he arrived in France.<\/p>\n<p>Herbet, 1937, 152, believed that this lost picture was not the <i>Cephalus and Aurora<\/i> mentioned by Dan in 1642, 96, as in the fourth room of the Appartement des Bains beneath the Gallery of Francis I, a painting to which Dan attached no artist.\u00a0 Herbet indicated that the latter is represented by a woodcut by Bernard Salomon, plate 86 of Cl\u00e9ment Marot\u2019s translation of the <i>Metamorphoses d\u2019Ovide<\/i>, published by Jean de Tournes in 1549, which I have not seen.\u00a0 But he seems to have forgotten that the inventory of 1692 mentions a painting of Cephalus with Procris and not with Aurora, although it is possible that all three of these figures appeared in a single picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1530-1540 Painting, Cabinet des Peintures, Ch\u00e2teau, Fontainebleau. The inventory of 19 January 1692 (verified in October, 1694) of the Cabinet des Peintures at Fontainebleau (Herbet, 1937, 94) records: \u201cUn C\u00e9phale et Procris, peint sur bois, du Rousse\u201d (mentioned by B\u00e9guin in Cox-Rearick, 1972, 5; in Carroll, 1987, 341, n. 2, under no. 106; and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"parent":826,"menu_order":68,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7859","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7859"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8608,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7859\/revisions\/8608"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/rosso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}