Vintage 1960 Gérôme “Pygmalion and Galatea" Art Print

A vintage reproduction of Gérôme's Pygmalion and Galatea from a 1960 Metropolitan Seminars in Art volume.

9.5" x 12.25" 

Jean-Léon Gérôme was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." His range of his works includes historical paintings, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects.

Pygmalion and Galatea is an 1890 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme. The motif is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses and depicts the sculptor Pygmalion kissing his statue Galatea at the moment the goddess Aphrodite brings her to life.