Pygmalion and Galatea

Jean-Léon Gérôme · ca. 1890 · Oil on canvas

Pygmalion and Galatea is an 1890 painting by the French artist 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.

Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Available as a made-to-order museum-quality canvas print: stretched or framed.