PsycheCupid2.0001_Boucher

PsycheCupid2.0001_Boucher

LACMA website
Bion Love's Schooling
Lucian Dialogues 20, 23

François Boucher, 1703-1770, "Cupid Wounding Psyche, oil on canvas, William Randolph Hearst Collection, 47.29.19, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Two putti comment silently upon the dramatic history of Psyche's affair with Cupid, which is about to unfold: the gentle putto holds the quiver from which Cupid has drawn the arrow to pierce her heart, the other glowers already reflecting the spite to be directed at the girl by the god's mother.

Even though Boucher took this theme on many times, this picture is not documented in Reid's OGCMA, cf. p. 945 for items 1.0165-170_Boucher.)

LACMA website cites this bibliography:
Schaefer, Scott, et al. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
Conisbee, Philip et al. The Ahmanson Gifts: European Masterpieces in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.