| Cupid and Psyche | |
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| Artist | Jacques-Louis David  |
| Year | 1817 |
| Dimensions | 184 cm (72 in) × 242 cm (95 in) |
| Location | Cleveland Museum of Art |
Love and Psyche or Cupid and Psyche is an 1817 painting by Jacques-Louis David, now in the Cleveland Museum of Art. It shows Cupid and Psyche. It was produced during David's exile in Brussels,[1] for the patron and collector Gian Battista Sommariva.[2][3] On its first exhibition at the museum in Brussels, it surprised viewers with its realist treatment of the figure of Cupid.[4] Critics generally saw the painting's unconventional style and realistic depiction of Cupid as proof of David's decline while in exile, but art historians have come to see the work as a deliberate departure from traditional methods of representing mythological figures.[5]
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