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Description: | Signed: yes Description: According to the account in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Andromeda, an Ethiopian princess, was chained to cliffs as a sacrifice to a ravaging sea monster, sent by the vengeful god Poseidon to terrorise the land. In the sky above is the small, winged figure of the hero Perseus, who will fall in love with Andromeda and rescue her. Gustave Moreau took his subjects exclusively from classical mythology or the Bible. He mentioned this picture in 1885, writing that the collector Paul Tesse owned a painting of Andromeda by him. Tesse's seal is indeed on the reverse. | Subjects: | Metamorphoses) Andromeda); literature (Ovid mythology (Perseus | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Moreau, Gustave (French painter, 1826-1898) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8884... | Go to resource |
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