Polypheme et Galathee

 

Raphael Drouart

  1884 - 1972 (biography)

1922  

woodengraving 

7 1/8 x 5 1/8" image 

pencil, lower right 

8 of 25  

titled and editioned in pencil 

Thierry Lefrancois, cat. no. 119 

laid paper 

published 

artist 

7155 

$225.00 

This is an illustration for Ovid's Metamorphasis. The Cyclops Polyphemus (son of Poseidon and Thoosa) the sea nymph Galatea for whom he killed his rival Acis. The image is opposite of the image of Polyphemus as a cannibal that was described in the Odyssey.