# The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BATONI, Pompeo]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 183 x 118 cm ## Commentary Best known and last of Rome's leading eighteenth-century painters was Pompeo Batoni. Curator of papal collections, he was extensively patronized by Grand Tourists. An assured portraitist, Batoni proved equally at home with mythological and biblical subjects, giving them a porcelain-like finish. His Marriage of Cupid and Psyche - in which the torch-bearing Hymen, god of marriage, arranges for the exchange of rings in the presence of Venus and Zephyr - presents a sleek pictorial solution to mythological subject matter. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 4 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/17\_cent/gasparini\_cupid.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Francesco Gasparini: The Meddlesome Cupid, aria</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [A Knight in Rome: Charles Cecil Roberts]() - [Achilles and the Centaur Chiron]() - [Allegory of Mercy and Truth]() - [Don José Moñino y Redondo, Count of Floridablanca]() - [Hercules at the Crossroads \(detail\)]() - [Hercules at the Crossroads]() - [Hercules at the Crossroads]() - [Holy Family]() - [Holy Family]() - [Madonna and Child]() - [Portrait of Charles Crowle]() - [Portrait of Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()