Galatea, or Pygmalion Reversed
Galatea, or Pygmalion Re-Versed is a musical burlesque that parodies the Pygmalion legend, and specifically W. S. Gilbert's 1871 play Pygmalion and Galatea. The libretto was written by Henry Pottinger Stephens and W. Webster. The score was composed by Wilhelm Meyer Lutz.
Punch cartoon of Edward Terry as Pygmalion
In Greek mythology, Pygmalion was a legendary figure of Cyprus. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved.
Pygmalion Adoring His Statue by Jean Raoux, 1717
Étienne Maurice Falconet: Pygmalion et Galatée (1763)
Pygmalion et Galatée by Girodet
Pygmalion by Jean-Baptiste Regnault, 1786, Musée National du Château et des Trianons