Pygmalion in love with his statue - Antoine Francoise Dennel - Lagrenee

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Pygmalion in love with his statue. Copper engraving of 1778. Measurement of the plate 47.5 cm x 34. Perhaps the most famous engraving of Antoine Francoise Dennel. Pygmalion falls in love with the statue of Galatea who carved himself (according to Ovid's Metamorphoses), and asks the goddess Aphrodite to give her in Bride, making it human. The Goddess agreed, and in this print you can see how, on the left, Galatea take life shrouded in thick clouds. According to other writers, Pygmalion fell in love dellla statue of Aphrodite herself, but for me the original story is that of Ovid, the later ones are just misinterpretation or deliberately changed to please the customer ... so much so that it becomes King Pygmalion Cyprus in one of these interpretations. Printing is restored at several points, has two tears rather important over the head of Galatea and under the base of the statue, superbly restored, but partially visible. For the restoration we used a contemporary laid paper with watermark German. Engraved by Antoine Francoise Dennel (1741-1806) from a work by Louis Lagrenée (1724-1805) and dedicated to the Duchess of Liancourt.

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