Drawing, Wallpaper Design: Psyche Bringing to Venus a Glass from the Fountain of Youth, 1815, Merry-Joseph Blondel

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. Date: 1815. Dimensions: 40 x 35.1 cm (15 3/4 x 13 13/16 in.). Medium: brush and black ink, graphite, paper, white chalk. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Drawing, Wallpaper Design- Psyche Bringing to Venus a Glass from the Fountain of Youth, 1815 (CH 18653925)