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Endymion and Selene

1854

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The story

Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon, fell in love with the mortal Endymion, and in some tellings she cast a spell so he would sleep forever and never lose his beauty. Pollet seats her in a crescent moon with her beloved kneeling beside her.

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Object details

Title: Endymion and Selene
Artist: Victor Florence Pollet
Date: 1854
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Object type: Other
Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0612
Original image: 3000 × 2300 px
Source record: View on Wikimedia Commons
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Victor Florence Pollet. Endymion and Selene. 1854. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0612/