Landscape with Psyche Outside the Palace of Cupid

Landscape with Psyche Outside the Palace of Cupid
Artist Claude Lorrain
Year 1664 (Signed and dated: Claude inv. Romae 1639)
Medium Oil on canvas
Location National Gallery, London

Landscape with Psyche Outside the Palace of Cupid, or The Enchanted Castle, 1664,[1] is a painting, oil on canvas, by Claude Lorrain in the National Gallery, London. It was commissioned by Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna, a Roman aristocrat. Its subject is taken from The Golden Ass (IV-VI), by Apuleius – the love story of Psyche the soul, and Cupid the god of love. It is not clear if Psyche sits in front of Cupid's castle before she meets him, or after he has abandoned her.

It is sometimes thought – it is disputed – to have inspired the lines – Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam/Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn , – in John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale". Keats was fascinated by the picture.

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