A whole series of paintings by Gustave Moreau make the same point in a variety of subtle ways. The giant spies on Galatea through the wall of a sea grotto or emerges from a cliff to adore her sleeping figure (see below). Again, Polyphemus merges with the cliff where he meditates in the same way that Galatea merges with her element within the grotto in the painting at Musée d'Orsay. The visionary interpretation of the story also finds its echo in Odilon Redon's 1913 painting The Cyclops in which the giant towers over the slope on which Galatea sleeps.
a whole series of paintings by gustave moreau make the same point in a variety of subtle ways the giant spies on galatea through the wall of a sea grotto or emerges from a cliff to adore her sleeping figure (see below) again polyphemus merges with the cliff where he meditates in the same way that galatea merges with her element within the grotto in the painting at musée d'orsay the visionary interpretation of the story also finds its echo in odilon redon's 1913 painting the cyclops in which the giant towers over the slope on which galatea sleeps