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Wallpaper Design: Psyche Bringing to Venus a Glass from the Fountain of Youth
Joseph Dufour, Merry-Joseph Blondel1815
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Psyche kneeling at right offers a cup to Venus who is sitting enthroned on the left with doves in her lap. Three unidentified maidens look on in the center of the composition. Neoclassical architectural setting.
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- Title: Wallpaper Design: Psyche Bringing to Venus a Glass from the Fountain of Youth
- Creator: Merry-Joseph Blondel, French, 1781–1853; active Paris, France 1802–1851, Joseph Dufour et Cie., French, 1752–1827
- Date Created: 1815
- Location Created: Paris, France
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Graphite, black, white chalk, brush and black ink on brown coated paper mounted to thin ply paperboard
- Credit line: Museum purchase through gift of Mr. and Mrs. Christian H. Aall and from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund
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