Collection Betrothal of Cupid and Psyche

Betrothal of Cupid and Psyche

Filippo Pelagio Palagi Italian, 1775-1860
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About the Artwork

Betrothal of Cupid and Psyche

ca. 1808

Filippo Pelagio Palagi

1775-1860

Italian

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Oil on canvas

Unframed: 74 1/4 × 100 inches (188.6 × 254 cm) Framed: 114 1/8 × 88 1/4 × 5 3/4 inches (289.9 × 224.2 × 14.6 cm)

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European Painting

Founders Society Purchase, Benson and Edith Ford Fund and Henry Ford II Fund

78.10

Public Domain

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Provenance

commissioned by Count C.F. Aldrovandi (Bologna, Italy);
until 1941, by descent to the family of Count C.F. Aldrovandi;
private collection (England);
1976-1978, (Heim Gallery, London, England);
1978-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Notizie de 'Quadri della Collezione Aldrovandi in Bologna. Bologna, 1869, pp. 29-30, 43, 44.

Giordani, G. "Carlo Filippo Aldrovandi Marescotti e Teresa Gnudi Aldrovandi poi Kellerman." Atti e Memorie: R. Deputazione de Storia per l'Emilia e la Romagna 6 (1940-1941): pp. 1, 6-7, 28-29.

Pelagio Palagi: artista e collezionista. Exh. cat., Museo Civico. Bologna, 1976, pp. 19, 447.

Bulletin of the DIA 56, no. 5: Annual Report (1978): pp. 275, 344 (fig. 43).

"La Chronique des Arts." Gazette des Beaux Arts, no. 1323 (April 1979): p. 43, no. 210 (ill.).

Lankeit, K. "Das Sposalizio d'Amore e Psiche' von Palagi: Ein wiedergefundenes Hauptwerk des italienischen Neo- klassizismus." Pantheon 37 (October 1979): p. 189.

Lankheit, K. "The Betrothal of Cupid and Psyche by Palagi." Bulletin of the DIA 58, no. 1 (1980): pp. 27-34; p. 26 (ill.).

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Filippo Pelagio Palagi, Betrothal of Cupid and Psyche, ca. 1808, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Benson and Edith Ford Fund and Henry Ford II Fund, 78.10.

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