Aurora and Cephalus is a painting by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin from 1810. It depicts a scene from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, where the goddess of dawn, Aurora, abducts the young hunter Cephalus and seduces him. This work illustrates the painter’s neoclassical style and his interest in mythological subjects. Historical context of the painting Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774-1833) was a […]
