This diminutive painting by Richard Pettibone is a meticulous miniature reproduction of Jean-Léon Gérôme's iconic Orientalist masterpiece, rendered in oil on canvas with extraordinary precision and detail. Pettibone's appropriation practice reduces the grand romantic narrative of the sculptor Pygmalion embracing his newly animated statue to an intimate, jewel-like scale. The work is housed in a specially crafted artist's frame, a signature element of Pettibone's practice that reinforces the fetishistic nature of his engagement with canonical Western art.