Jean-Léon Gérôme · 1890

Pygmalion and Galatea

Name: Pygmalion and Galatea by Jean-Léon Gérôme
Brand: Chromora
SKU: gerome-pygmalion-galatea
Availability: InStock

Posters from $15.00 CAD · Canvas from $39.00 CAD

Ships to the US & Canada

The sculptor Pygmalion embracing his statue Galatea at the moment Venus brings her to life — marble warming to flesh from the waist up. The Met.

Up to 19 × 24 in · portrait

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

+ tax at checkout

Hand-printed in Ottawa

Free shipping on prints over $50 CAD

Ships in 5 business days

30-day returns

Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

About this painting

The story of Pygmalion and Galatea

Pygmalion and Galatea is an 1890 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. The motif is taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses and depicts the sculptor Pygmalion kissing his statue Galatea at the moment the goddess Aphrodite brings her to life.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the artist

Jean-Léon Gérôme

Jean-Léon Gérôme was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The range of his works includes historical paintings, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits, and other subjects. Gérôme is considered among the most important painters from the academic period and was, with Meissonier and Cabanel, one of "the three most successful artists of the Second Empire".

All Jean-Léon Gérôme prints →

Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Pairs well with