Crenaia, the Nymph of the Dargle is an oil painting by Frederic Leighton, first exhibited in 1880.

Leighton had visited Ireland to paint landscape in the summer of 1874, and possibly on other occasions in the 1870s.

[2] The picture, now also known as The Nymph of the Dargle, was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1880 under the title of Crenaia.

[3] Frederic George Stephens, writing for The Athenæum, was enthusiastic about the painting when it was shown: The next picture is a small one, named Crenaia (655), and comprises a single figure of a nymph standing in a cavern or rocky niche by the side of a spring of clear water, and huddling to her chin an abundance of diaphanous white drapery, which, falling in front, conceals half the bearer's form, and leaves half uncovered.

The carnations lack a little of that inner golden tint which, when omitted, leaves the purer red and white too rosy and too pale.