Dromende Psyche, Eugène Leroux, after Constance Mayer, 1846 - 1853

Title(s)

Dromende Psyche
Le Rêve (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-1970-451

Catalogue reference

• IFF après 1800 160

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• check stamp: Lugt 36a

Artist

• print maker: Eugène Leroux (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Constance Mayer (mentioned on object)
• printer: Victor Jacques Bertauts (mentioned on object)

Place

Paris

Dating

1846 - 1853

Material

• paper

Technique

lithography

Measurements

height 281 mm × width 344 mm

What

• Psyche, on her way back, opens Proserpina's casket and is overcome by sleep
• cupids: 'amores', 'amoretti', 'putti'
• (story of) Cupid, Amor (Eros)

Acquisition

purchase 1970

Copyright

Public domain

• Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, dl. 14, p. 126, cat.nr. 160
• Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, dessiné et gravé de P.P. Prud'hon, Edmond de 1822-1896 Goncourt, p. 314