From the New York Times:
"[Girodet's] Sleep of Endymion was a Vargas pin-up, a muscled shepherd reclining on a leopard skin bed, ravished by a shaft of light, which is meant to represent the goddess Diana, who hovers like the scent of rosewater in the air around him. When Balzac saw the painting, he asked whether he could be left alone with it. Endymion made Girodet instantly famous."
Girodet: Romantic Rebel is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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