![]() Up to this time, David had often been regarded as an imitator of ancient art. Louis XVIII had offered David a pardon for his activities during the Revolution, but the painter decided instead to enter exile in Brussels. It was the first painting that David finished in exile. Background Exile ĭavid began planning Love and Psyche in Paris in 1813, then completed it while in exile in Brussels, following Napoleon's fall from power. Critics generally saw the painting's unconventional style and realistic depiction of Cupid as proof of David's decline while in exile, but art historians have come to see the work as a deliberate departure from traditional methods of representing mythological figures. ![]() On its first exhibition at the museum in Brussels, it surprised viewers with its realist treatment of the figure of Cupid. It was produced during David's exile in Brussels, for the patron and collector Gian Battista Sommariva. Love and Psyche or Cupid and Psyche is an 1817 painting by Jacques-Louis David, now in the Cleveland Museum of Art. ![]()
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