Cupid and Psyche

Robert Fagan (Cork c.1745 – Rome 1816). 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. Attingham Park, Shropshire (Accredited Museum)