Echo and Narcissus (Waterhouse painting)

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title= Echo and Narcissus
artist= John William Waterhouse
year= 1903
type=Oil on canvas
height= 109.2
width= 189.2
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city= Liverpool
museum= Walker Art Gallery

"Echo and Narcissus" is an oil painting, created in 1903 by Pre-Raphaelite artist John William Waterhouse. The painting illustrate the poem "Echo and Narcissus" by Ovid.

Echo was a nymph. She was in love with Narcissus but he became so enamoured with his own reflection in a stream that he was fixated by the image, and Echo wasted away through unrequited love, all that remained was the 'echo' of her voice. To punish Narcissus he was transformed into a flower of the same name by the gods. [ [http://www.jwwaterhouse.org/paintings/painting1399.aspx Echo and Narcissus] at Waterhouse:The Art and Life of John William Waterhouse.]

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