Oil painting study for the eponymous painting in the collection of the Musée du Louvre (inv. 2395), probably exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1857.
| Artist |
Octave Tassaert
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| Title | Pygmalion and Galatea |
| Date | circa 1855 |
| Period | 19th century |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 2025-AD |
| Acquisition credit |
long-term loan
Privéverzameling 2025 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2025-AD |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/12032/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300189808
figures (representations)
AAT
300417629 mythologies (religious concept) AAT 300124520 interior views AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
31A71
male sex; man
Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 31AA the (nude) human figure; 'Corpo humano' (Ripa) - AA - female human figure Iconclass 31D112 child Iconclass 31D12 youth, young man, adolescent Iconclass 31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass 48C23 portrait, self-portrait of sculptor Iconclass 92I2 Nereids, daughters of Nereus; sea-nymphs Iconclass 92I22 (story of) Galatea; 'Galatea' (Ripa) Iconclass 95 the Greek heroic legends (II) Iconclass 95A(PYGMALION) (story of) Pygmalion Iconclass |
| School / Style | historicism (theory) AAT |
| onder vrienden : 225 jaar verzamelaars rond het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 25.11.2023 - 28.04.2024) / Johan De Smet, Frederica Van Dam, Willy Van der Gucht, Manfred Sellink. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2023 ; Gent : De Vrienden van het Museum, 2023 (p. 88, cat. 105 (ill.)) |
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