Pygmalion.
    Disappointed by mortal women, Pygmalion, king of Cyprus, carved an ivory statue of his ideal and then fell in love with it. In answer to his prayer, Aphrodite brought the sculpture to life and Pygmalion married her. They had a daughter, Paphos, named in honor of Aphrodite, and later became grandparents of Cinyras. Apollodorus, anciently, does not mention the sculpture's animation. He does, however, mention Metharme, the daughter of Pygmalion.
    The name Galatea, by which the statue is now known in many treatments of the theme, is a postclassical addition. Rousseau's 1762 lyric monodrama "Pygmalion" (premiered 1775) invents the name for Galatea and becomes true watershed in the myth's development, as dozens of subsequent composers picked up the name from him.

Further Reference: Annegret Dinter (1979) Der Pygmalion-Stoff in der europäischen Literatur: Rezeptionsgeschichte einer Ovid-Fabel (Heidelberg: Winter). Hans Sckommodau (1979), Pygmalion bei Franzosen und Deutschen im 18. Jahrhundert (Wiesbaden: Steiner). Heinrich Dome (1968), Die schöne Galatea: Eine Gestalt Rande des griechischen Mythos in antiker und neuzeitlicher Sicht (Munich: Heimeran). J.L. Carr (1960), “Pygmalion and the Philosophes," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 23: 239—55. Geoffrey Miles, ed. (1999), Classical Mythology in English Literature: a critical anthology (London and New York, Routledge), Chapter 6.