Cyparissus (Vignali)

Cyparissus
Artist	Jacopo Vignali
Year	c. 1625
Medium	oil painting on canvas
Movement	Baroque painting; Mythological painting
Subject	Cyparissus
Dimensions	123 cm × 163 cm (48 in × 64 in)[1]
Location	Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg
Accession	1994

Cyparissus is a 1620s Baroque painting on a mythological subject from Ovid's Metamorphoses by the Italian painter Jacopo Vignali. It is on display in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France, to which it had been donated by the collectors Othon Kaufmann and François Schlageter in 1994. Its inventory number is 994-1-8,[2] or 44.994.1.8.[1]

The painting depicts the young Cyparissus, mourning his pet deer, that he had mistakenly killed with his own bow and arrow. The young boy's pain is amplified beyond the description given by Ovid, and possibly inspired by a 1624 Venetian edition of Giovanni Andrea dell' Anguillara's Metamorfosi ridotte in ottava rima, in which the tearful aspect of the story is emphasized.[1] It is one of the very few profane paintings by Vignali.[2]

References

Roy, Alain (June 2017). De Giotto à Goya. Peintures italiennes et espagnoles du musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Musées de la ville de Strasbourg. pp. 190–191. ISBN 978-2-35125-151-5.
Jacquot, Dominique (2006). Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Cinq siècles de peinture. Strasbourg: Musées de Strasbourg. pp. 90–91. ISBN 2-901833-78-0.

External links

Cyparissus, presentation on the museum's website

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[Roy-1] Roy, Alain (June 2017). De Giotto à Goya. Peintures italiennes et espagnoles du musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Musées de la ville de Strasbourg. pp. 190–191. ISBN 978-2-35125-151-5.

[Jacquot-2] Jacquot, Dominique (2006). Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Cinq siècles de peinture. Strasbourg: Musées de Strasbourg. pp. 90–91. ISBN 2-901833-78-0.