Paris - The Embarkation for Cythera
Hope Mirrlees
Le départ pour Cythère.
These nymphs are harmless,
Fear not their soft mouths-
Some Pasteur made the Gauls immune
Against the bite of Nymphs . . . look
[Extract]
An excerpt from the long 1919 poem, Paris.
The Embarkation for Cythera is a painting completed by Antione Watteau in 1717. It hangs in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
Main Location:
Embarkation to Cythera, Louvre Museum, Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris, France
The Embarkation for Cythea by Watteau, in the Louvre Museum, Paris