Nymphs by Jacques-Antoine Vallin

The Frenchman Jacques-Antoine Vallin (ca 1760-after 1831) painted themes taken from Greek mythology, including Nymphs, Venus, and the Bacchantes.

O francês Jacques-Antoine Vallin (ca 1760-after 1831) pintou temas da mitologia grega, nomeadamente Ninfas, Vénus e Bacantes.

Jacques-Antoine Vallin (ca 1760-after 1831)-‘Nymphs and Fauns in a landscape with a statue’    Private collection

Jacques-Antoine Vallin (ca 1760-after 1831)-‘Nymphs dancing and playing music in a southern landscape’-oil on panel-1793    Private collection

Jacques-Antoine Vallin (ca 1760-after 1831)-‘Nymphs dancing around the bust of a god’-oil on panel    Private collection

Jacques-Antoine Vallin (ca 1760-after 1831)-‘a wooded landscape with Nymphs music making and dancing’-oil on panel-1817    Private collection

Jacques-Antoine Vallin (ca 1760-after 1831)-‘reclining Nymph with sleeping Cupid’-oil on canvas    Private collection

Nymphs (ninfas)

These Greek goddesses of little importance had their own location in caves, mountains and rivers. They were imagined as young beauties always dedicated to singing and love.


Estas deusas gregas de reduzida importância tinham localização própria como: grutas, montanhas, rios. Imaginavam-nas como beldades sempre jovens dedicadas ao canto e ao amor.

Unknown (4th century)-'rape of Hylas by the nimphs'-Roman panel from Basilica Junius Bassus (Esquilino) Roma-Palazzo Massimo alle Terme

Herbert James Draper (1863-1920)-'the water nimph'-oil on canvas-1908 Private collection

Guillaume Seignac (1870-1924)-'nimph at the fountain'- oil on canvas-1908 Private collection

François-Joseph Navez (1787-1869)-'nimph Salmacis (of Halikarnassos in Karia) and Hermaphroditus'- oil on canvas-1829 Ghent-Museum voor Scone Kunster

Caesar van Everdingen (1617-1678)-'Bacchus with two nymphs and Cupid'-oil on canvas Dresden-Gemäldegalerie