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Thorvaldsens Museum
  • Bertel Thorvaldsen 1770-1844
  • Posthumously done

Cupid and Psyche

  • Cupid and Psyche According to Apuleius
  • 1861
  • Sculpture > Statue
  • Location

    • Denmark > Copenhagen > Thorvaldsens Museum > Main Floor > Room 2
  • A27
  • A27
  • Thorvaldsen's Art > Thorvaldsen's Sculptures (A)

Motif / Theme

  • Human > God > Erotes > Eros / Cupid
  • Human > Goddess > Psyche
  • General Subject > Greek and Roman mythology
  • Object > Container > Bowl

    • Stone > Marble
    • Carved
  • Marble Version

Dimension

  • Height 135 cm
  • Sculpture
  • European > Modernity (1800 - 1914)
    • Neoclassicism
  • Georg Christian Freund
  • Denmark > Copenhagen
  • 1861
    • Thorvaldsens Museum
    • Commissioned by Thorvaldsens Museum
    • No earlier than 1861
  • https://kataloget.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/A27

Exhibition History

  • Canova | Thorvaldsen. La nascita della scultura moderna, Gallerie d’Italia, October 24, 2019 - June 28, 2020

Sources / Literature

    • Ludvig Müller: Fortegnelse over Thorvaldsens Værker i Thorvaldsens Museum (A), 1848, 27
    • Februar 1804 from Bertel Thorvaldsen to Irina Vorontsova
    • 5.3.1804 from Irina Vorontsova to Bertel Thorvaldsen
    • 8.3.1844 from H.C. Andersen to Bertel Thorvaldsen

Related Artworks

Cupid and Psyche

A28

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