Cupid and Psyche

1828

Jean Baptiste Regnault (French, 1754–1829)

Status: On View, Gallery 220
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Jean Baptiste Regnault
Title: Cupid and Psyche
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1828
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed and dated lower right: Regnault 1828
Dimensions: 152.8 × 196 cm (60 1/8 × 77 1/8 in.); Framed: 173.4 × 215 × 8.9 cm (68 1/4 × 84 5/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Preston O. Morton Memorial Purchase Fund for Older Paintings
Reference Number: 1972.363
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“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.

Paris, Bazar Bonne-Nouvelle, 1846, cat. 80.

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.

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