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Psyche abandoned by Love
Jean-Baptiste Oudry, François Boucher1750
Quirinale Palace
Rome, Italy
The tapestry is part of the series of five pieces with the Stories of Psyche, ordered in 1748 by Philip of Bourbon. In this cloth the girl, who disobeyed the prohibition to admire the features of Love, is depicted in a barren landscape, while she watches Cupid who goes away in the sky pushed by a cloud.
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- Title: Psyche abandoned by Love
- Creator: Manufacture of Beauvais, directed by Jean-Baptiste Oudry and Nicolas Besnier. Models by François Boucher
- Date Created: 1750
- Type: Tapestry
- Photographer: Francesco Taurisano
- Location in the Palace: Hall of the Tapestries
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