Focus on Omphale (Gérôme sculpture) and explore the Appraisal.
Fanny Field Hering describes the sculpture thus:Pure, pensive, passionate the perfection of form and expression—she leans, in the attitude of the Farnese Hercules, upon the club of that vanquished hero, who has succumbed to the power of the tiny God of Love almost hidden under the folds of the famous lion-skin. On the lips of the beautiful Queen of Lydia rests an expression of mingled triumph and longing, as if she were not quite sure of her power to retain her captive lover.
Frédéric Masson writes of this creation: "Gérôme has found also in sculpture that which he has so long sought for and found in painting—beauty and grace. He himself has bestowed the informing idea."
Frédéric Masson Gérôme God of Love famous lion-skin Farnese Hercules Queen of Lydia