Cupid and Psyche (c. 1600): Art, History and Details

Cupid and Psyche (c. 1600) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jan Muller (Dutch, 1571–1628); Bartholomaeus Spranger (Flemish, 1546–1611).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Müller adopted Goltzius's engraving style of a dense network of swelling and tapering lines. He sometimes made prints after works by Bartholomeus Spranger (1546-c. 1611), another exponent of the Mannerist style and court painter to the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II (1576-1612) in Prague.

Object facts

• Title: Cupid and Psyche
• Date: c. 1600
• Creator attribution: Jan Muller (Dutch, 1571–1628); Bartholomaeus Spranger (Flemish, 1546–1611)
• Culture: Netherlands, early 17th Century
• Type: Print
• Technique: engraving
• Dimensions: Platemark: 38.5 x 52.5 cm (15 3/16 x 20 11/16 in.); Sheet: 39.9 x 53.7 cm (15 11/16 x 21 1/8 in.)
• Collection: PR - Engraving
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1998.7

Collection credit

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, “Painting by 18th-century Italian Master Gaetano Gandolfi among Works Added to CMA Collection,” March 24, 1998, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.

View the collection record

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