leatherandmossprints:

‘Nymphs and Satyr’ by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, c. 1873.

Most of his paintings are beautiful, yet to this one I must admit my own egotistical, naïve, and stupid attraction.

I would aspire to such a great work, and I feel I could never reach it.

But what if I tried anyway? Iʼve already admitted to my own egotism, havenʼt I? And nymphs and satyrs are the most fitting representations of our species in my eyes, truthful archetypes Bouguereau captured as representatives for the eroticism of both sexes.

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