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Cephalus and Procris

probably 1680s

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

25 1/2 x 31 3/8 in. (64.8 x 79.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1974

Classification

Paintings

Department

European Paintings

Rights

Public Domain

About Godfried Schalcken

1643–1706Dutch Republic

Studied with Samuel van Hoogstraten in Dordrecht in 1656 and Gerrit Dou in Leiden. He returned to Dordrecht in 1665, where he was a standard-bearer with the arquebusiers. In 1679 he married Françoise van Dimen, of Breda, with whom he had seven children, six of whom died young. He was a guild member in The Hague in 1691, before leaving to spend several years in London, attracted by the success of his fellow-countryman Kneller. Comment on works: Genre; Portraits