© National Gallery, London
Landscape with Psyche outside the Palace of Cupid (The Enchanted Castle)
Claude Lorraine
- Art Funded
- 1981
- Dimensions
- 87 x 151 cm
- Vendor
- Loyd Trustees
This painting is no.
162 in Claude's 'Liber Veritatis', the artist's own pictorial record of his work, now in the British Museum. Depicts Psyche's grief at the departure of Cupid. A lonely figure in a deserted landscape, a mood of dreamy enchantment and Arcadian tranquillity such as appealed to the Romantics.
Provenance
Painted for Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna, Grand Constable of the Kingdom of Naples.