Omphale (Gérôme sculpture)

Omphale is a marble sculpture by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme, made between 1886 and 1887, and now kept in the Musée Georges-Garret in Vesoul.In the Salon of 1887, Omphale was the centre of attraction in the garden of the Palais de l'Industrie.[1] Gérôme had seriously undermined his health by uninterrupted labour, having worked on the Omphale many days from seven in the morning till eleven at night.[2] Fanny Field Hering describes the sculpture thus: Pure, pensive, passionate the perfection of form and expression—she leans, in the attitude of the Farnese Hercules, upon the club of that vanquished hero, who has succumbed to the power of the tiny God of Love almost hidden under the folds of the famous lion-skin.On the lips of the beautiful Queen of Lydia rests an expression of mingled triumph and longing, as if she were not quite sure of her power to retain her captive lover.
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