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| Greek Culture in Lycia Draped Nereid from the Nereid Monument ca. 390-380 BC marble British Museum |
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| Anonymous European Maker Pendant - Nereid and Child late 16th century gold, pearls, emeralds,rubies, diamonds British Museum |
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| Filippo Rega Nereid in profile before 1833 beryl intaglio British Museum |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Nereid riding a Dolphin ca. 1640-50 drawing British Museum |
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| Antoine-Louis Barye Nereid with a mirror, arranging a necklace ca. 1836 plaster and wax statuette Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Lucas Cranach the Elder Nymph of the Fountain 1534 oil on panel Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
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| Giulio Romano Nymphs before 1546 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
from Ode to Evening
If aught of oaten stop, or past'ral song,
May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear,
Like thy own solemn springs,
Thy springs and dying gales,
O nymph reserved, while now the bright-haired sun
Sits on yon western tent, whose cloudy skirts,
With brede ethereal wove,
O'erhang his wavy bed;
Now air is hushed, save where the weak-ey'd bat
With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing,
Or where the beetle winds
His small but sullen horn
As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path
Against the pilgrim, borne in heedless hum:
Now teach me, maid composed,
To breathe some softened strain,
Whose numbers stealing through thy dark'ning vale
May not unseemly with its stillness suit,
As musing low, I hail
Thy genial loved return.
For when thy folding star arising shows
His paly circlet, at his warning lamp
The fragrant Hours, and elves
Who slept in flowers the day,
And many a nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge
And sheds the fresh'ning dew, and lovelier still,
The pensive pleasures sweet
Prepare thy shad'wy car.
Then lead, calm votress, where some sheety lake
Cheers the lone heath, or some time-hallowed pile
Or upland fallows grey
Reflect its last cool gleam.
– William Collins (1746)
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| Peter Lely Nymphs by a Fountain ca. 1650-55 oil on canvas Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
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| Bartholomeus Breenbergh Classical Landscape with Nymphs 1647 oil on panel Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Étienne-Maurice Falconet Bathing Nymph ca. 1760 marble statuette Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| attributed to Willem van den Broeck Sleeping Nymph ca. 1550-60 alabaster Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Clodion Nymph with Cupids ca. 1780-90 terracotta statuette Victoria & Albert Museum |
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| William Jacob Baer Nymph 1898 cabinet miniature, watercolor on ivory Walters Art Museum, Baltimore |
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| Arthur F. Kales Dancing Nymph ca. 1917 platinum print Getty Museum, Los Angeles |