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Cupid and Psyche
Inscriptions
Signed and dated lower right: Regnault 1828
Exhibition history
Paris, Bazar Bonne-Nouvelle, 1846, cat. 80.
Publications
“Museum Acquisitions,” The Burlington Magazine, CXV (1973), p. 534, fig. 90. Christopher Sells, “A Late Work by Jean-Baptiste Regnault,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 8 (1976), pp. 87-95, fig. 1.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean Baptiste Regnault (French, 1754–1829)
- Date
- 1828
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 152.8 × 196 cm (60 1/8 × 77 1/8 in.); Framed: 173.4 × 215 × 8.9 cm (68 1/4 × 84 5/8 × 3 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Preston O. Morton Memorial Purchase Fund for Older Paintings
- Accession no.
- 1972.363
Provenance
Sale Baron Regnault, Atelier Regnault, Paris, March 1-15, 1830, lot 15 to M. Dormoy. Private collection, Paris [according to fact sheet provided by Wildenstein]. Wildenstein, New York, by 1972; sold to the Art Institute, 1972.
More by Jean Baptiste Regnault in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00000941
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