Jean-Léon Gérôme, French
Whenever Gustave Finished a Sculpture, He Always Made Sure To Date It, 1890
Oil on canvas
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MASTERPIECE #2722
/// His love morphed cold ivory to flesh.
Pygmalion lunged, letting lips mesh.
But the change, incomplete,
left this Gal with cold feet.
She slugged him for being so fresh.
/// She tried, but she couldn’t escape,
as hands glided over her shape.
Quite soon he might see a
charge from Galatea:
Attempted Statuary Rape.
/// Pygmalion rethought his attack,
and slowly unhanded her rack.
A small cloud-borne putto
flashed him il cornuto
and fired a shaft in his back.