About the Artwork
Betrothal of Cupid and Psyche
ca. 1808
Filippo Pelagio Palagi
1775-1860
Italian
Unknown
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)
Paintings
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: Annual Report 56, no. 5 (1978): pp. 275, 344 (fig. 43).
Lankeit, K. "Das Sposalizio d'Amore e Psiche' von Palagi: Ein wiedergefundenes Hauptwerk des italienischen Neo- klassizismus." Pantheon 37 (October 1979): p. 189.
"La Chronique des Arts." Gazette des Beaux Arts, no. 1323 (April 1979): suppl. p. 43, no. 210 (ill.).
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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