Cephalus and Procris: Procris turns her head over her right shoulder while seated nude in a thicket, Cephalus draws an arrow with a bow beyond, from a series of four mythological scenes

1539

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: sheet: 4 11/16 x 3 in. (11.9 x 7.6 cm)
Collection no.: 2012.136.764
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Georg Pencz. Cephalus and Procris: Procris turns her head over her right shoulder while seated nude in a thicket, Cephalus draws an arrow with a bow beyond, from a series of four mythological scenes. Georg Pencz; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Cephalus and Procris: Procris turns her head over her right shoulder while seated nude in a thicket, Cephalus draws an arrow with a bow beyond, from a series of four mythological scenes — Georg Pencz. 1539.

Medium: Engraving. Dimensions: sheet: 4 11/16 x 3 in. (11.9 x 7.6 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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