Psyche Abandoned is a c.1795 painting by Jacques-Louis David, and is now in a private collection. It shows Psycheabandoned by Cupid as a crouching female nude in profile against a blue sky and a hill in the background. Vertical in format, it represents David's early style and shows his approach to the female nude to be different from the academic canons.
"A painted study of Psyche" appears on three of David's lists of his own work as a pendant to The Vestal Virgin.[1] Long thought lost, it was rediscovered in 1991[2] and exhibited in the 2010 Louvre exhibition L’Antiquité rêvée.[3]
Background
editPainting
editOrigins and Rediscovery
editOther Depictions of Psyche
editAnalysis
editConnection to David's Life
editAbandonment
editFemininity
editComparison to Other Works
editAway from the Neoclassical
editLoss and Grief
editBibliography
edit- Furbank, P. N. "Dreams of the Body." The New York Review of Books, May 25, 2000, 14-16, https://go.openathens.net/redirector/bc.edu?url=https://www.proquest.com/magazines/dreams-body/docview/213680342/se-2.[4]
- Gully, Anthony Lacy. The American Historical Review 106, no. 4 (2001): 1469–70. https://doi.org/10.2307/2693119.[5]
- Lebensztejn, Jean-Claude. "Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David After the Terror." The Art Bulletin83, no. 1 (03, 2001): 153-157. https://go.openathens.net/redirector/bc.edu?url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/necklines-art-jacques-louis-david-after-terror/docview/222965790/se-2[6]
- PADIYAR, SATISH. “Neo-Classicisms: Paris and Houston.” The Burlington Magazine 153, no. 1298 (2011): 357–58. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23055893.[7]
- Schroder, Anne L. "Fragonard's Later Career: The Contes Et Nouvelles and the Progress of Love Revisited." The Art Bulletin 93.2 (2011): 150-0_7. ProQuest. Web. 4 Oct. 2022.[8]
- Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa. Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Accessed November 21, 2022. https://www.aaeportal.com/?id=-22998.[9]
References
edit- ^ One is the list of 1789 cited in Verbraeken 1973, p. 245
- ^ Antoine Schnapper, "Après l'exposition David. La «Psyché» retrouvée", Revue de l'Art, 1991, p. 60-67
- ^ Guilhem Scherf (ed), "L’Antiquité rêvée, innovations et résistances au XVIIIe siècle", Louvre éditions and Gallimard, 2010, (ISBN 9782070130887)
- ^ Furbank, P. N. (May 25, 2000). "Dreams of the Body". The New York Review of Books: 14–16.
- ^ Gully, Anthony Lacy. "Psyche Abandoned". The American Historical Review 106. 4: 1469–1470.
- ^ Lebensztein, Jean-Claude (2001). "Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David After the Terror". The Art Bulletin83. 1: 153–157.
- ^ Padiyar, Satish (2011). "Neo-Classicisms: Paris and Houston". The Burlington Magazine. 1298: 357–358.
- ^ Schroder, Anne L. (2011). "Fragonard's Later Career: The Contes Et Nouvelles and the Progress of Love Revisited". The Art Bulletin. 93.2: 150–157 – via ProQuest.
- ^ Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa (1999). Necklines: the art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror. New Haven, CT: New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 8–70. ISBN 9780300074215.