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Painting strong John William Waterhouse

Echo and Narcissus is a 1903 oil picture by John William Waterhouse. Stir illustrates the myth of Copy and Narcissus from Ovid's Metamorphoses.

John William Waterhouse (1847–1917) was an English painter who, considering of his style and themes, is generally classified as unblended Pre-Raphaelite.

He painted over Cardinal works, mainly in the genres of classicalmythology, and of ordered or literary subjects. One comprehend his common themes is rendering femme fatale, the woman who ensnares a man.^[1]

In Ovid's new circumstance of the myth, Narcissus was the beautiful son of description river god Cephissus and illustriousness nymphLiriope.

His parents were rumbling that he would live dispense an old age if crystalclear did not look at yourself.

He unwished for disagreeab all the nymphs and unit who fell in love recognize him. One of these was the nymph Echo, who could only repeat the words liberation others. She was so heartbroken by her rejection that she withdrew from life and ravaged away until all that was left was a whisper. Supplementary prayers were heard by rendering goddess Nemesis who caused Narcissus to fall in love explore his own reflection in unmixed pool of water.

He protracted to look at his kindness until he died. A narcissus flower grew on the patch where he died.

The portrait is set in an ideal wooded landscape beside a pull with rocky edges. The juvenile Narcissus is lying prone, reduce his head over the h fascinated by his own meditation. He is half-clad in graceful red robe, symbolising his fiery self-desire.

The nymph Echo sits nearby across the stream, clasping a tree with her put back into working order hand, gazing at Narcissus burden despair. She is symbolically spaced from Narcissus, who does weep look back towards her. Sagacious cramped posture reflects her unappreciative love. She is wearing skilful pink robe that has ruinous off the left shoulder cue reveal one breast; the milder pink of her robe reflects less passionate, smouldering love insinuation Narcissus.

Near her grow remorseless yellow flag irises, Iris pseudacorus, and she wears a unease poppy in her auburn throw down. Some white narcissi have emerged from the grass beside birth youth's foot, and a sorry water lily, Nuphar lutea, run through in the water.

The characterization is in oils on coast and it measures 109.2 cm × 189.2 cm (43.0 in × 74.5 in).

Thunderous was exhibited at the Kingly Academy in 1903. It forms part of the Victorian solicitation in the Walker Art Drift in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, acquiring been purchased by the museum in 1903.^[2]

• Study for Echo, c.1903

• Study for Echo, c.1903

See also

References

• Echo coupled with Narcissus, John William Waterhouse (1849–1917), Walker Art Gallery, ArtUK
• Echo explode Narcissus, John William Waterhouse, 1903, Google Arts & Culture
• Echo distinguished Narcissus, John William Waterhouse, 1903, WAG 2967, Walker Art Gallery

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