Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
The Watts Gift
Chantrey Bequest
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/george-frederic-watts-586" aria-label="More by George Frederic Watts" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">George Frederic Watts</a>
Psyche
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1882
actions: postures and motions
adults
beauty
classical myths: gods and heroes
emotions, concepts and ideas
female
nudes
people
Psyche
religion and belief
standing
universal concepts
woman
<p>Psyche was a mortal of such beauty that the goddess Venus became jealous of this highly praised rival. She sent her son, Cupid, to make Psyche fall in love with a monster. Cupid, however, fell in love with her himself and hid her in a palace where he visited her by night. She was forbidden to look at him, but curiosity got the better of her, resulting in their separation until Jupiter reunited them in heaven. It was the depiction of such stories from ancient mythology which earned Watts and other artists such Frederic Leighton the title ‘Olympian’, taken from Mount Olympus, the home of the gods.</p><p><em>Gallery label, November 2016</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
1 November 2001 – 31 August 2003
2003-08-31
6 September 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
2002-09-06
Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York, USA)
2001-11-01
Exposed: The Victorian Nude
Exhibition
1 January 2014 – 31 May 2014
2014-05-31
1 January 2014 – 31 May 2014
2014-05-31
2014-01-01
Mitsubishi Ichigokan (Tokyo, Japan)
2014-01-01
Art for Art's Sake
Loan-out
Psyche
support: 1886 × 597 mm
frame: 2215 × 933 × 83 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1882
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<p>Psyche was a mortal of such beauty that the goddess Venus became jealous of this highly praised rival. She sent her son, Cupid, to make Psyche fall in love with a monster. Cupid, however, fell in love with her himself and hid her in a palace where he visited her by night. She was forbidden to look at him, but curiosity got the better of her, resulting in their separation until Jupiter reunited them in heaven. It was the depiction of such stories from ancient mythology which earned Watts and other artists such Frederic Leighton the title ‘Olympian’, taken from Mount Olympus, the home of the gods.</p>
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actions: postures and motions adults beauty classical myths: gods and heroes emotions, concepts and ideas female nudes people Psyche religion and belief standing universal concepts woman