Painting titled "Salmacis et Hermaph…" by Jean-Pierre André Leclercq, Original Artwork, Oil Mounted on Wood Stretcher frame

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Salmacis et Hermaphrodite (2012) Painting by Jean-Pierre André Leclercq

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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Oil on Linen Canvas

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Dimensions Height 36.2in, Width 28.7in
Framing This artwork is not framed
Categories Paintings under $5,000 Classicism Love

Ovid, metamorphoses, book iv A son of Hermes-Mercury and Venus decides, at the age of fifteen, to leave the land of his childhood to discover the world. He arrives in Caria, near a pond with limpid waters, where lives a solitary young nymph, Salmacis, who spends all her time frolicking near this pond which bears her name. As soon as she sees the young boy, she falls in love with him, approaches him and offers herself to him. But, ignorant of all love, he immediately pushes her away. The nymph pretends to fade away and disappears. The boy undresses to bathe. When she sees him so handsome, Salmacis joins him in the water and clings to him, despite his efforts to escape her. Salmacis then asks the gods for the favor that they should never be separated from each other, and she is granted. The young man, Hermaphrodite, who has become an effeminate being, obtains from his parents that any man who comes into contact with the waters of the fountain be transformed into an androgyne.

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Nymphe Amour Fusion Sexe Hermaphrodite

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Jean-Pierre André Leclercq

France

Jean-Pierre André Leclercq is a contemporary award-winning French artist. Leclerq, a former drawing-focused artist, now sees himself as a classical painter. His paintings,[...]