コレクション番号 NGL002235
作品名 Psyche showing her Sisters her Gifts from Cupid
作品名欧文 N-6445-00-000043-A3
作家名 NG6445
所蔵先 ロンドン・ナショナル・ギャラリー
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フィルムNo. Psyche showing her Sisters her Gifts from Cupid
作品No. ジャン・オノレ・フラゴナール
制作年 1753
寸法 168.3 x 192.4 cm
解説 This painting illustrates an episode from the classical myth of Cupid and , which was originally told by Apuleius in his Golden Ass. It is an early work by Fragonard, executed in 1753, the year after he had won the Prix de Rome and before his first Italian visit. An immediate success, it was exhibited with other paintings at Versailles in 1754, but later passed into obscurity with an attribution to Carle van Loo. At some date it was cut down along the top and left sides.Fragonard's work is probably based on La Fontaine's version of the fable. After falling in love with Psyche, Cupid had visited her only at night, forbidding her to look upon him. In the painting, Psyche shows her two sisters the gifts she has received from her lover, and moved by jealousy - a Fury appears in the sky above the sisters - they persuade her to uncover Cupid's identity and thus wreck her happiness.
