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| Louis Jean-François Lagrenée Alcibiades on his Knees before his Mistress ca. 1781 oil on panel Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena California |
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| Étienne-Barthélemy Garnier Anacreon with his Mistress and the young Bathyllos (illustration to poetry of Horace) ca. 1793 drawing Princeton University Art Museum |
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| Leopold Kiesling Mars and Venus 1809 marble Belvedere Museum, Vienna |
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| Theodor von Holst Les Adieux (illustration to Shelley's Ginevra) 1827 watercolor and gouache on paper National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa |
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| Pietro Tenerani Leda and the Swan ca. 1830 marble relief in giltwood frame Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich |
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| John Archibald Woodside Mermaid and her Lover ca. 1840 oil on panel (created to decorate a fire engine) National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Benjamin Gladding The Wedding Night 1869 oil on canvas Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Daphnis and Chloe 1874 marble Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
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| Anonymous Makers Cinderella and the Prince ca. 1880 chromolithographs (cut out and mounted as stick puppets) National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Charles Ban Woman and Man embracing ca. 1880 drawing (print study to illustrate unidentified French novel) Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia |
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| Luigi Cochetti Zephyrus and Iris before 1884 watercolor on paper Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Ontario |
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| Carl Gutherz Temptation of St Anthony 1890 oil on canvas Ogden Museum of Southern Art,New Orleans |
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| Hubert von Herkomer Souvenir of Watts 1901 oil on metal Southampton City Art Gallery, Hampshire |
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| Oskar Kokoschka Heavenly and Earthly Love 1910 drawing Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Georges Barbier Le Feu 1925 lineblock and pochoir Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
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| Georges Barbier Le Soir 1925 lineblock and pochoir Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |
Hylas and the Water Nymphs
And straight he was aware
Of water in a hollow place, low down,
Where the thick sward shone with blue celandine,
And bright green maiden-hair, still dry in dew,
And parsley rich. And at that hour it chanced
The nymphs unseen were dancing in the fount –
The sleepless nymphs, reverenced of housing men;
Winning Eunica; Malis, apple-cheeked;
And, like a night bedewed rose, Nichèa.
Down stepp'd the boy, in haste to give his urn
Its fill, and push'd it in the fount; when, lo!
Fair hands were on him – fair, and very fast;
For all the gentle souls that haunted there
Were drawn in love's sweet yearning tow'rds the boy;
And so he dropp'd within the darksome well –
Dropp'd like a star, that, on a summer eve,
Slides in ethereal beauty to the sea.
– Theocritus (early 3rd century BC), translated by Leigh Hunt (1844)