• Echo and Narcissus is a 1903 oil painting by John William Waterhouse. It illustrates the myth of Echo and Narcissus from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
  • John William Waterhouse’s Hylas and the Nymphs is a captivating painting from 1896 depicting a scene from ancient mythology.
  • Here the artist captured a moment from Ovid’s Echo and Narcissus a well known fable of a beautiful youth named Narcissus.
  • The myth of Echo and Narcissus explores the boundaries between love and obsession and warns that obsessive self-love comes with consequences.
  • Narcissus ultimately dies from sorrow on the banks of the pool, gazing longingly at his own reflection, heartbroken that his love cannot be returned by his reflection.
  • tag / style: Romanticism; Classicism; Pre-Raphaelite; mythological; Roman; Echo; Narcissus; John William Waterhouse; reflection.
  • Enamoured of Narcissus, the son of the river god Cephisus and the nymph Liriope, she tried to win his love using fragments of his own speech but he spurned her...
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  • Building a Capsule Wardrobe by Starting with Art: Echo and Narcissus by Waterhouse Version 2. This is a painting that easily provides a second color scheme!
  • Echo and Narcissus. 1903. 109 x 189 cms | 42 3/4 x 74 1/4 ins Oil on canvas.