Cupid and Psyche - Marchetti
SIZE INFORMATION
Prints: Size listed always refers to the paper size, inclusive of any white border shown.
Frames: Size listed always refers to the paper size, inclusive of any white border shown. As the width of the frame is approximately 2cm, a framed print will be slightly wider/taller than the given size.
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A print of Marchetti's Cupid and Psyche — a 19th century Italian reproductive engraving treating the most famous love story of Greco-Roman fable, the god of love and the mortal princess whose name means "soul".
The tale survives in full only in Apuleius' 2nd century Latin novel The Golden Ass. Psyche, a princess so beautiful that Venus grows jealous, is secretly married to Cupid on the condition that she never look upon him. Her sisters goad her into breaking the promise; she holds a lamp over him as he sleeps, wakes him with a drop of spilled oil, and loses him. Venus sets her four impossible tasks; she completes them with the help of animals, ants and towers, descends to the underworld, and in the end is made immortal and reunited with her husband. The myth was a favourite of Neoclassical sculpture and of 19th century engraving, both of which treated it as a fable of the soul's trials in search of love.
The reproductive engraving tradition to which this print belongs — line-engraved plates after celebrated paintings and sculptures — was the 19th century's primary way of disseminating great art to households that would never see the original.
- Museum-grade Giclée print
Museum-grade Giclée printing: The gold standard for gallery art prints.
- Weight: 200 g/m2
- Material: 100% FSC® certified paper
- Finish: Matte, natural white
- Inks: Premium archival, water-based
Size always refers to paper size (including any white border shown; excluding frame width).
Free framing service: Expertly assembled in a dust-free environment, arriving ready-to-hang.
- 2cm wide, 2.2cm deep
- Material: Lightweight FSC® certified ash wood
- Finish: Smooth satin laminate, or uncoated wood grain (Natural)
- Glaze: Shatterproof Perspex
Size always refers to paper size (including any white border shown; excluding frame width).
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