ANTONIO CANOVA
1757-1822
Plaster model for Cubid and Psyche (1794)
Cubid, lover of the mortal Psyche holds a light over his
sleeping body, for which she is punished by Aphrodite.
The scene conveyed by this modello is of Psyche being
rescued in Cubid's embrace
Exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art
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