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Archival pigment, 100+ years
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Colour-managed to the source
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Gallery canvas on solid wood
Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
← Myth by the Masters

Pygmalion and Galatea

Ivory turning to flesh, from the knees up.

Work
Jean-Léon Gérôme, Pygmalion and Galatea
Artist / creator
Jean-Léon Gérôme (French, 1824–1904)
Origin & date
Paris, c. 1890
Held by
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Format

The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.

Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 24x36 cleanly.

Size

$24.00

The story

Gérôme catches the myth at its exact hinge: the sculptor reaches up to kiss the statue he has fallen in love with, and Venus is granting the wish as we watch — Galatea is warm, living flesh from the head down to the hips, and still cold white ivory below. She bends to him; her hand is in his hair. Cupid hovers at the left, arrow drawn. The studio around them is Gérôme’s own, hung with masks and armour, which makes the miracle domestic. The most literal painting ever made about what artists secretly want: for the thing they made to come alive.

About this reproduction

  • Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York’s open-access release.
  • Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
  • Color-managed to the source scan.
  • Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
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From Myth by the Masters