# Cupid and Psyche [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CANOVA, Antonio]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Marble, height 137 cm ## Commentary At the request of Prince Nikolai Yusupov, a great admirer of his work, Canova repeated with minor alterations the sculpture that he created in 1787 \(now in the Louvre\). The theme might be said to be beauty awakened by love. It presents the moment when Cupid's kiss revives his beloved from the death-like sleep into which she fell after opening the vessel containing the elixir of beauty that Aphrodite had her fetch from the realm of the dead. ## Related artworks - [Bust of Napoleon Bonaparte]() - [Cupid and Psyche \(detail\)]() - [Cupid and Psyche \(detail\)]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() - [Cupid and Psyche]() - [Daedalus and Icarus]() - [Daedalus and Icarus]() - [Eurydice]() - [Feed the Hungry]() - [Funerary Monument of Francesco Pesaro \(model\)]() - [General view]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()