Artist Jacques-Louis David Period Neoclassicism | Created 1817 | |
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Location Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland Jacques-Louis David artwork The Loves of Paris and Helen, The Farewell of Telemach, Madame de Pastoret and Her, Portrait of Anne Marie Louise Th, Sappho and Phaon | ||
Love and Psyche or Cupid and Psyche is an 1817 painting by Jacques-Louis David, now in the Cleveland Museum of Art. It shows Cupid and Psyche. It was produced during David's exile in Brussels for the patron and collector Gian Battista Sommariva. On its first exhibition at the museum in Brussels, it surprised viewers with its realist treatment of the figure of Cupid.
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