LAGRENÉE, Louis-Jean-François
(b. 1724, Paris, d. 1805, Paris)

Psyche Surprising the Sleeping Cupid

1768
Oil on canvas, diameter 121 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

This painting and its pendant Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan were commissioned to decorate the bedroom of Louis XV, King of France (1715–1774), at the Château de Bellevue (near Paris).




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