Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Cycles / (circa) Tapestries after Boucher (Rome, Quirinal and Stockholm, Royal Palace)
Amor / Myths / Amor and Psyche / Individual scenes / Scenes that do not go back to Apuleius / Psyche with the Basket-maker

Further details

The iconography of this scene is unclear. It has been suggested that that is an adaptation of La Fontaine's Amours de Psyché, which describes Psyche meeting an old Fisherman; or that it is a learned allusion to Psyche meeting Ceres.

Artist or creator

Beauvais Tapestry Manufacture after
Boucher, François (1703-1770)

Date

18th century (middle)

Location

Rome, Palazzo del Quirinale

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Geraldine C. Hussman, Boucher's Psyche at the Basket-makers, J. Paul Getty Museum Journal 4 (1977), pp. 45-50

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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