Psyche Abandoned (painting)
Psyche Abandoned is a c.1795 painting by Jacques-Louis David, and is now in a private collection. It shows Psyche abandoned by Cupid as a crouching female nude in profile against a blue sky and a hill in the background. Vertical in format, it represents David's early style and shows his approach to the female nude to be different from the academic canons.
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"A painted study of Psyche" appears on three of David's lists of his own work as a pendant to The Vestal Virgin.[1] Long thought lost, it was rediscovered in 1991[2] and exhibited in the 2010 Louvre exhibition L’Antiquité rêvée.[3]
References
- One is the list of 1789 cited in (Verbraeken 1973, p. 245)
- Antoine Schnapper, "Après l'exposition David. La «Psyché» retrouvée", Revue de l'Art, 1991, p. 60-67
- Guilhem Scherf (ed), "L’Antiquité rêvée, innovations et résistances au XVIIIe siècle", Louvre éditions and Gallimard, 2010, (ISBN 9782070130887)
Bibliography
- René Verbraeken, Jacques-Louis David jugé par ses contemporains et la postérité, Paris, Léonce Laget, 1973 (ISBN 2852040018)
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