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Cimon and Iphigenia

1650–1659

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The story

Boccaccio's Cimon is a coarse nobleman who falls for Iphigenia when he finds her asleep in a wood, and love turns him refined until he wins her. Lely painted the meeting in the 1650s, and the canvas is lent to the National Trust by the Trustees of the Sackville Estate.

Source, National Trust Collections

Object details

Title: Cimon and Iphigenia
Artist: Peter Lely
Date: 1650–1659
Culture: British
Medium: Oil on canvas
Object type: Paintings
Collection: National Trust, Knole (129850)
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.1237
Original image: 1200 × 747 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Peter Lely. Cimon and Iphigenia. 1650–1659. National Trust, Knole (129850). Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea1237/