Cupid and Psyche
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
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Cupid and Psyche

1817
Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825) visual detail
ArtisteJacques-Louis David (French, 1748–1825)
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Provenance

Public
1839

Giovanni Battista Comte de Sommariva [1760-1826], his sale February 18-23, 1839, sold to Dubois.

1839

(Dubois, Paris, France, February 18-23, 1839, lot 1)

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James Alexandre Comte de Pourtalès [1776-1855], Paris. France.

1880

Pourtalès-Gorgier sale, Paris, France, March 27, 1865 (lot 242), ff 1,450 sold to Madame de Furtado,...

1880-?

Madame de Furtado [1821-1896], Paris, France

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M. Eisenschitz ? (See distinguishing marks label)

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Prince Murat by 1913. Princesse Murat. Murat sale, Palais Galliéra, Paris, France, March 2, 1961 (lo...

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Giovanni Battista Comte de Sommariva [1760-1826], his sale February 18-23, 1839, sold to Dubois. (Dubois, Paris, France, February 18-23, 1839, lot 1) James Alexandre Comte de Pourtalès [1776-1855], Paris. France. Pourtalès-Gorgier sale, Paris, France, March 27, 1865 (lot 242), ff 1,450 sold to Madame de Furtado, 1880. Madame de Furtado [1821-1896], Paris, France M. Eisenschitz ? (See distinguishing marks label) Prince Murat by 1913. Princesse Murat. Murat sale, Palais Galliéra, Paris, France, March 2, 1961 (lot 140), ff 245,000. (Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, NY sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). Neo-classicism: Style and Motif. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 23-October 31, 1964). Fifteenth Anniversary Exhibition. Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (organizer) (November 4, 1965-January 2, 1966). The Age of Neoclassicism. Arts Council of Great Britain (organizer) (September 7-November 19, 1972). Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (February 1-April 24, 2005); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (organizer) (June 5-September 5, 2005). CMA @ Oberlin (first rotation). Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 31-April 3, 2006). Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art. Frick Collection, New York, NY (organizer) (November 8, 2006-January 28, 2007). Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, OH (March 29-July 8, 2007). Jacques-Louis David. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France (organizer) (October 15, 2025-January 26, 2026) https://www.louvre.fr/en/exhibitions-and-events/exhibitions/jacques-louis-david. City Hall, Ghent, Belgium (1817). (According to Dowd 1956). Au profit des hospices de Sainte-Gudule et des Ursulines. Musée Royal de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium (1817). (See Wildenstein and Wildenstein 1973). Au profit des Grecs. Galerie Lebrun, Paris, France (1826). (According to David, exh. cat., Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, France (1948). Gros, ses amis, ses élèves. Petit Palais, Paris, France (1936). David: Exposition en l'honneur du deuxième centenaire de sa naissance. Orangerie des Tuileries, Paris, France (June-September, 1948).

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David used the story of Cupid and Psyche to explore the conflict between idealized love and physical reality. Cupid, lover of the beautiful mortal Psyche, visited her nightly on the condition that she not know his identity. Cupid was usually depicted as an ideal adolescent, but here David presents him as an ungainly teenager smirking at his sexual conquest. David took inspiration from a number of ancient texts, including an obscure, recently published Greek poem by Moschus that describes Cupid as a mean-spirited brat with flashing eyes and curly hair.

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