About This Artwork
Jean Baptiste Regnault
French, 1754-1829
Cupid and Psyche1828
Oil on canvas
60 1/8 x 77 1/8 in. (152.8 x 196 cm)
Signed and dated l.r.: Regnault 1828
Preston O. Morton Memorial Purchase Fund for Older Paintings, 1972.363
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Paris, Bazar Bonne-Nouvelle, 1846, cat. 80.
Publication History
“Museum Acquisitions,” The Burlington Magazine, CXV (1973), p. 534, fig. 90.
Christopher Sells, “A Late Work by Jean-Baptiste Regnault,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 8 (1976), pp. 87-95, fig. 1.
Ownership History
Sale Baron Regnault, Atelier Regnault, Paris, March 1-15, 1830, lot 15 to M. Dormoy. Private collection, Paris [according to fact sheet provided by Wildenstein]. Wildenstein, New York, by 1972; sold to the Art Institute, 1972.