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ENGLAND Important and fine tapestry of the Soho manufacture Beginning of XVIIIth century In silk and wool Restorations of maintenance Beautiful polychromy Remarkable freshness of the colors Drawn from the history of the myth of Narcissus (Greek mythology) The myth of Narcissus, described by Ovid, puts in scene the impasse of the identity has oneself in its efforts as much clinical as social.It obliges us to think the inscription of a subject in the symbolic universe as subtracted from his own disposition under penalty of producing the narcissistic abyss. Narcissus, a young Greek man, son of the river God Cephise and the nymph Liriope', shines in the fountain of a temple in the foreground surrounded by luxuriant vegetation. On the left, we can see the nymph Echo and her confidant who admires him (when he reached adulthood, Narcissus, endowed with a great beauty, attracted the wrath of the Gods by rejecting the love of the nymph Echo) 215 x 255 cm Expert : Mr Kassapian
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ENGLAND Important and fine tapestry of the Soho manufacture Beginning of XVIIIth century In silk and wool Restorations of maintenance Beautiful polychromy Remarkable freshness of the colors Drawn from the history of the myth of Narcissus (Greek mythology) The myth of Narcissus, described by Ovid, puts in scene the impasse of the identity has oneself in its efforts as much clinical as social.It obliges us to think the inscription of a subject in the symbolic universe as subtracted from his own disposition under penalty of producing the narcissistic abyss. Narcissus, a young Greek man, son of the river God Cephise and the nymph Liriope', shines in the fountain of a temple in the foreground surrounded by luxuriant vegetation. On the left, we can see the nymph Echo and her confidant who admires him (when he reached adulthood, Narcissus, endowed with a great beauty, attracted the wrath of the Gods by rejecting the love of the nymph Echo) 215 x 255 cm Expert : Mr Kassapian
