Narcissus
In the quiet stillness of Paul Dubois’s 1867 masterpiece, Narcissus, we encounter a moment frozen in time, captured with the breathtaking precision of 19-century French classical realism. The sculpture presents the mythological figure not as a boastful youth, but as a soul lost in the depths of his own reflection. As he draws a heavy, draped cloth across his body, his gaze is cast downward, directed toward an unseen pool,…








