Pygmalion and galatea

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Pygmalion and Galatea (French Pygmalion et Galate) is an 1890 painting by the French artist JeanLon Grme. The motif is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses, and depicts how the sculptor Pygmalion kisses his ivory statue Galatea, after the goddess Venus has brought her to life. JeanLon Grme pain

Aphrodite brings the statue Galatea to life, as the heartbroken Pygmalion weeps, still believing his love to be stone.

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By Étienne Maurice Falconet, 1763. Saint Petersburg, Russia. State Hermitage Museum.