作品詳細

コレクションNo.

NGL002235

作品No.

NG6445

画像No.

N-6445-00-000043-A3

 

 

作品名

Psyche showing her Sisters her Gifts from Cupid

作品名欧文

Psyche showing her Sisters her Gifts from Cupid

 

 

作家名

ジャン・オノレ・フラゴナール

作家名欧文

Jearn-Honore Fragonard

 

 

生没年

1732‐1806

 

 

制作年

1753

材質・形状

カンヴァスに油彩

寸法

168.3 x 192.4 cm

 

 

所蔵先

ロンドン・ナショナル・ギャラリー

画像データ

20.7MB

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.