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Jean Pierre Saint-Ours
The Reunion of Cupid and Psyche1793

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Oil painting of two mythological figures embracing in midair — a draped woman and a winged, nearly nude man — before classical columns and billowing clouds

Jean Pierre Saint-Ours, The Reunion of Cupid and Psyche, 1793, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Jean Pierre Saint-Ours
Switzerland, Geneva, 1752-1809
Title
The Reunion of Cupid and Psyche
Place Made
Switzerland
Date Made
1793
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
Panel: 13 7/8 × 15 3/4 in. (35.24 × 40.01 cm) Frame: 17 1/4 × 19 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (43.82 × 49.53 × 6.35 cm)
Credit Line
The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.2000.179.30
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance
The artist, sold 1793 to; Jean-Isaac Thélusson (1758-1823), Geneva. Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924-2015), London, by 1980, sold 2002 to; LACMA
Selected Bibliography
  • Marandel, J. Patrice. French oil sketches from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 17th century - 19th century. Los Angeles: The Ahmanson Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002.
  • Perry, Marilyn. New York: Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 2006.
  • Walch, Peter, , Joanna R. Barnes, J. Patrice Marandel. French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition. New York : American Federation of Arts in association with the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
  • Laveissière, Sylvain, Paola Hoffman, Birgitta Sandström, et al. Bénigne Gagneraux (1765-1795), un pittore francese nella Roma di Pio VI (exh. cat.). Dijon: Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1983
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.

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