page_title: Pygmalion and the Image series
section_title: Pygmalion and Galatea IV: The Soul Attains
hierarchical_section_title: Pygmalion and the Image series / The second series / Pygmalion and Galatea IV: The Soul Attains
context_page_description: Pygmalion and the Image is the second series of four oil paintings in the Pygmalion and Galatea series by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones which was completed between 1875 and 1878. The two collections may be seen below, in the Gallery, the first being now owned by Lord Lloyd Webber, and the second housed at the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.
context_section_description: When Pygmalion returns home, he finds that his statue has come to life and humbles himself at her feet.
  This was not Burne-Jones' only series of pictures: others include The Briar Rose series (1885–1890), which was based on Charles Perrault's fairy tale, Sleeping Beauty (as retold by the Brothers Grimm), and Burne-Jones' spectacular Cupid and Psyche frieze. Although not imbued with the depth and texture of The Merciful Knight (1863), this second attempt at portraying the tale of Pygmalion and Galatea has become regarded as one of the artist's most important works. It was exhibited at Sir Coutt Lindsay's new Grosvenor Gallery in 1879, thereby establishing Burne-Jones as one of the leading artists in the burgeoning Aesthetic Movement.
  A c. 1870 pencil on paper study for the work is in The New Art Gallery Walsall.
caption: The Soul Attains, 2nd Series, H.99.4 cm x W.76.6 cm (1878)
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