Cupid and Psyche
1817
Jacques-Louis David
Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Cupid and Psyche, 1817. Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825). Oil on canvas; framed: 221 x 282 x 10 cm (87 x 111 x 3 15/16 in.); unframed: 184.2 x 241.6 cm (72 1/2 x 95 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1962.37 Jacques-Louis David included two butterflies in this painting: one above the slumbering Psyche and the other on the base of the couple's bed frame.
- Maker/Artist
- David, Jacques-Louis
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 221 x 282 x 10 cm (87 x 111 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 184.2 x 241.6 cm (72 1/2 x 95 1/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed in yellow in arm of the couch: L. David 1817 Bruxelles
- Departments
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1962.37
- Credit Line
- Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review - 1962, Neo-classicism: Style and Motif, Fifteenth Anniversary Exhibition, The Age of Neoclassicism, Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile, CMA @ Oberlin (first rotation), Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art, Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art, City Hall, Ghent, Belgium (1817). (According to Dowd 1956)., <em>Au profit des hospices de Sainte-Gudule et des Ursuline</em>s. Musée Royal de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium (1817). (See Wildenstein and Wildenstein 1973)., <em>Au profit des Grecs</em>. Galerie Lebrun, Paris, France (1826). (According to David, exh. cat., Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, France (1948)., <em>Gros, ses amis, ses élèves</em>. Petit Palais, Paris, France (1936)., <em>David: Exposition en l'honneur du deuxième centenaire de sa naissance</em>. Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, France (June-September, 1948).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 201 French Neoclassical Painting & Sculpture
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