Oil paint on canvas
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Nymphs Discover Narcissus
Purchased 1879
actions: postures and motions
adults
bending forward
classical myths: creatures
classical myths: gods and heroes
emotions, concepts and ideas
female
group
groups
landscape
Narcissus
narcissus
nudes
nymph
people
plants and flowers
pool
religion and belief
standing
transformation
universal concepts
water: inland
woman
wooded
<p>Thomas Stothard depicts a scene here from the Roman poet Ovid’s mythological narrative, Metamorphoses. The boy Narcissus, obsessed with his own reflection in the water, wastes away and turns into a flower. Here a group of nymphs discover the flower growing on the riverbank.<span> </span>The painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1793. Stothard’s steadiest form of income was book illustration, but his reputation as a history painter was beginning to grow in the 1790s. It was on this basis that he was elected a full member of the Royal Academy in 1794.</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 2023</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
25 April 2014 – 19 October 2014
2014-10-19
25 April 2014 – 19 October 2014
2014-10-19
2014-04-25
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-04-25
Bodies of Nature
Collection based display
26 September 2022
26 September 2022
2022-09-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2022-09-26
Gallery 15
Collection based display
Nymphs Discover the Narcissus
frame: 434 × 460 × 70 mm
support: 324 × 352 mm
Purchased 1879
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<p>Thomas Stothard depicts a scene here from the Roman poet Ovid’s mythological narrative, Metamorphoses. The boy Narcissus, obsessed with his own reflection in the water, wastes away and turns into a flower. Here a group of nymphs discover the flower growing on the riverbank.<i> </i>The painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1793. Stothard’s steadiest form of income was book illustration, but his reputation as a history painter was beginning to grow in the 1790s. It was on this basis that he was elected a full member of the Royal Academy in 1794. </p>
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actions: postures and motions adults bending forward classical myths: creatures classical myths: gods and heroes emotions, concepts and ideas female group groups landscape narcissus Narcissus nudes nymph people plants and flowers pool religion and belief standing transformation universal concepts water: inland woman wooded