Nymph followed by Apollo 

"Nymph followed by Apollo" is a pastel painting by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, a renowned French portraitist. The work, housed in the Musée de Picardie in Amiens, France, features a young woman with a delicate, ethereal beauty. Her soft features, adorned with a floral headdress and a pearl earring, evoke the classic imagery of a nymph. The white dove resting in her arms adds a sense of innocence and purity, perhaps alluding to the Greek myth of Apollo's pursuit of the nymph Daphne. La Tour's masterful use of pastel creates a soft, luminous effect, emphasizing the subject's delicate beauty and the sensuality of the scene.