Cupid and Psyche
Robert Fagan (1761 - Rome 1816)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1793 - 1795
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1200 x 1048 mm (47 1/4 x 41 1/4 in)
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 609098
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Cupid and Psyche by Robert Fagan (Cork c.1745 – Rome 1816), 1793/95. Two full-length figures in an embrace, cupid, naked, on the left with long wings, Psyche on the right with small wings and lightly draped. After the antique sculpture group of Cupid and Psyche, Roman 2nd century AD based on a Greek original which was given by Pope Bendict XIV, having been discovered in the estate of the Canonico Panicale on the Aventine Hill, to the Capitoline Museum, Rome in 1749, although it was in France between 1797 and 1815.
Provenance
Presumably commissioned by Thomas Noel Hill, 2nd Lord Berwick (1770-1832) on his visit to Naples in 1792/3; bequeathed to the National Trust in 1947 with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) on 15th May 1953.
Credit line
Attingham Park, The Berwick Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Robert Fagan (1761 - Rome 1816), artist