J. W. WATERHOUSE - HYLAS AND THE NYMPHS - 1896 - CANVAS PRINT

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 (𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉, 𝟏𝟖𝟒𝟗-𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟕) - 𝑯𝒚𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒉𝒔 - 𝟏𝟖𝟗𝟔 - 𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒎, 𝑷𝒓𝒆-𝑹𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒔 - 𝑴𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍, 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 - 𝑶𝒊𝒍 𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒗𝒂𝒔 - 𝑯𝒊-𝑹𝒆𝒔 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆'𝒔 "𝑯𝒚𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒉𝒔," 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝟏𝟖𝟗𝟔, 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕'𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒅𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆. 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒎𝒚𝒕𝒉 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑱𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆'𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕'𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒅𝒚𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝒆𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒅, 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒉𝒔, 𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒍𝒑𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. 𝑰𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒎𝒚𝒕𝒉, 𝑯𝒚𝒍𝒂𝒔, 𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑨𝒓𝒈𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒖𝒕, 𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒉𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒂 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑯𝒚𝒍𝒂𝒔, 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒉𝒔, 𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎, 𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒇𝒆𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔 𝒂 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒄 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒂𝒔 𝑯𝒚𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔, 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅, 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒑 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒎. 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆, 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝑳𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑨𝒍𝒎𝒂-𝑻𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒂, 𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒄𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒓𝒆-𝑹𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒔 "𝑯𝒚𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒉𝒔" 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒔 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒉 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝑯𝒚𝒍𝒂𝒔, 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒆 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓. 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆'𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑯𝒚𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆, 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝑯𝒚𝒍𝒂𝒔'𝒔 𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘𝒑𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒉 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒄𝒖𝒔 𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒕𝒚𝒑𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒇𝒆𝒎𝒎𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒆, 𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆, 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒊𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔. 𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒙𝒊𝒕𝒚, 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒉𝒔, 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒍𝒖𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒌𝒆, 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆'𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆. 𝑯𝒚𝒍𝒂𝒔, 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆, 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒆𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒑𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒉𝒔. 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆'𝒔 𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒈, 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒎 𝒇𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒍𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒎𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒌 𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑽𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒔, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒓𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅, 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒆𝒗𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒅. "𝑯𝒚𝒍𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒚𝒎𝒑𝒉𝒔" 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆'𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒔.