Pygmalion and Galatea
This statue is very likely the one exhibited by the artist at the Salon of 1763. The subject is taken from the Roman poet Ovid's tale of Pygmalion. Pygmalion is depicted in rapturous amazement at the feet of his love object, a nude sculpture, just at the moment when it is giv...
Images (8)
Sculpture
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17579
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sculpture
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normalized
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| provenance |
provenance
Gaston Le Breton; Ambatielos [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co. [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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language
en
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pageCount
8
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import
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Source image fields (5)
| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_27.387_VwC_DD_T10.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_27.387_VwC_DD_T10.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_27.387_VwC_DD_T10.jpg |
| imageCount | 8 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.387 |
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marble
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