# Cupid and Psyche, in Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David painted this in 1817, aged 69. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> 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.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1817
- 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.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1962.37
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Jacques-Louis David](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jacques-louis-david), French, 1748–1825

David was the leading painter of French Neoclassicism. After winning the Prix de Rome he studied antiquity in Italy, and in the 1780s produced severe, moralising history paintings such as The Oath of the Horatii and The Death of Socrates.

4 works in the collection.

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