Room 33
Pierre Subleyras, Diana and Endymion
“The shepherd Endymion, renowned for his beauty, was sent to sleep by the moon goddess Selene so that she might embrace him unobserved.”
after Subleyras, Diana and Endymion
after Subleyras, Diana and Endymion
after Subleyras, Diana and Endymion
François Boucher, Pan and Syrinx
“The nymph Syrinx was pursued by the amorous Pan as far as the river Ladon, where she begged her sisters of the river, one of whom is shown reclining on an urn, to help her. Thinking that he had caught Syrinx, Pan clasped at her, but the river nymphs changed Syrinx into the reeds growing on the river bank, from which he later made his pipes. He rushes towards Syrinx in Boucher’s painting, urged on by the boy Cupid holding an arrow and a burning torch. In its scale and intimate character, the painting is very like the work of Jean-Antoine Watteau although the theme is directly mythological and the treatment more overtly erotic.”
after Boucher, Pan and Syrinx
after Boucher, Pan and Syrinx
after Boucher, Pan and Syrinx
after Boucher, Pan and Syrinx
The quotes on this page are from the descriptions of the original paintings by the National Gallery.
