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painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme
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The Idyll (French: L'Idylle) is an 1852 oil painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. Produced in the Neo-Grec style, the art critic Théophile Gautier suggested it as inspired by the novel Daphnis and Chloe from the classical era. It is also known by the alternative title Daphnis and Chloe.
The painting was exhibited at the Salon of 1853 in Paris. It later featured in the Paris Exposition of 1900. Today it is in the collection of the Musée Massey in Tarbes.
“On Lesbos while hunting I saw in a Nymphs’ grove a display, the fairest I ever saw: an image depicted, a story of love.”
“This will cure him that is sick, and rouse him that is in dumps; one that has loved, it will remember of it; one that has not, it will instruct. For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see.”
“He also began to teach her to play the syrinx, and when she started to blow into it he would snatch the syrinx away and run his own lips over it; he gave the impression of correcting her mistakes, but by proxy of the syrinx he was giving Chloe kisses.”
“Love rules the elements, Love rules the stars, Love rules the gods, his peers—his sway over them exceeds yours over your goats and sheep. All flowers are the works of Love, all trees are his creations; through his power do rivers flow, and winds blow.”
“For there is no remedy for Love, no cure to be drunk or eaten or chanted in spells, save only kissing and embracing and lying down naked together.”
“Daphnis and Chloe lay together naked, hugged and kissed, spending that night more sleepless than any owl. Daphnis did some of what Lycaenium had taught him, and for the very first time Chloe learned that what had happened in the woods was nothing but shepherds’ games.”
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