Cymon and Iphegenia

Name/Title

Cymon and Iphegenia

Entry/Object ID

58.6.5

Description

Painting of Cymon and Iphegenia Circular Oil Painting in Square Gilt Wood Frame of "Cymon and Iphegenia" Attributed To Angelica Kauffman. Cymon Comes Across the Sleeping Iphegenia and Her Attendants. Cymon Stands on Proper Right in Rustic Clothing of Shirt, Red Breeches, Slouched Boots. Iphigenia Wears White Robes, Gracefully Reclining on Light Blue-Green Cloth with an Attendent in Red Robes Sleeping At Her Knees.

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Painting

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Intake

Loan In

L.1958.006.

Lender

Gibbes Museum of Art/ Carolina Art Association

Date Received

Dec 1, 1958

Date Due for Return

Mar 1, 1999

Date Returned

Mar 1, 1999

General Notes

Note

Notes: [photo] __[slide] __[transparency]y __[other] Cymon Was a Strikingly Handsome But Ignorant Son of the King of Crete Whose Name Meant "Ass" in His Native Tongue. Rusticated For His Inablitilty To Take on the Slightest Polish, Cymontended To His Father's Pigs Until One Day When He Came Upon the Sleeping Iphigenia. Her Beauty Awakened His Dormant Finer Instincts and He Became a Gracious Courtier and Won Iphigenia. From Boccaccio's Decameron Status: OK

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Create Date

December 11, 1997

Updated By

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Update Date

February 10, 2023