Galatea
Galatea by French Painter Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson (1767 – 1824); who was a student of Jacques-Louis David, was part of the early Romantic Movement, and is noted for his clear and precise style and for the paintings of the Napoleonic family.
This is a bust height portrait of the mythological story of Pygmalion and Galatee (when the Goddess Aphrodite turns Pygmalion’s female statue that he has fallen in love with, into a living being), after she has transitioned from being an ivory statue into a living human woman.
He show her in the same form and position as he did in the full dramatic piece Pygmalion et Galatee that he did in 1819, with her head slanted toward the ground and her eyes just beginning to open; with her wearing an off shoulder white dress.
This is a remastered digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available as a canvas print online.
