Cupid and Psyche

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Cupid and Psyche

Jacques-Louis DavidLinkedCulture matchlcp-14631ff483cc

Date
1813
Medium
gray wash and pen and black ink with white paint and traces of black chalk
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Drawings
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
162396

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This drawing belongs to a group of preparatory studies for Jacques-Louis David's painting Cupid and Psyche, also in the Cleveland Museum of Art's collection. Here, David integrated looser charcoal sketches into a finished work in which his composition was fully established. Only minor details, such as Cupid's facial expression, were ultimately changed. In layers of diluted gray wash and outlines of black ink, David evoked the precise appearance of his final canvas using monochromatic media. Scholars believe that this drawing was given by Jacques-Louis David to his pupil, the Comte de Forbin, to thank him for his continual devotion.

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Credit line
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
Provenance
after 1813-after 1841: Given by the artist to Nicholas Phillippe Auguste, Compte de Forbin [1777-1841], Paris | ?-?: Private collection, Paris | 1973: (sale, Hotel Drouot, November 7, 1973, no. 107) | 1975-?: (Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich) | by 1975: (Heim Gallery, London) | by 1979-?: (Artemis Group (David Carritt), London) | after 1979-?: (Eugene V. Thaw, New York) | ?-?: Ed Hill, El Paso, Texas | ?-?: Elizabeth Eddy, Ohio | around 1980-?: (Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York) | ?-?: Paul Weiss, New York | by 1994-2003: (Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) | 2002-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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