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 pictures to darken, greatly to their detriment, Prud'hon deservedly holds a high place among the artists of his school. Works: Union of Love and Friendship (1793); Wisdom and Truth descending upon Earth (1800); Study guiding the Efforts of Genius (1800, ceiling in Rothschild Palace, Rue Lafitte, Paris); Diana imploring Jupiter (1803); Justice and Vengeance (1808); Venus and Adonis, Rape of Psyche, Zephyr hovering over the Water (1812); Interview between Napoleon I. and Francis II. after Austerlitz, Sketch of the ceiling in the Diana Hall of the Louvre, Study, Assumption, Christ on the Cross (1822), several portraits of Mme. Jarre and others, Louvre; Study guiding Genius, Angers Museum; Two Male Portraits, Dijon Museum; Young Girl's Head, Lille Museum; Allegorical Figures: Wealth, Art, Pleasure, Philosophy, Montpellier Museum; France Triumphant after Restoration of Louis XVIII. (sketch to a ceiling at Dijon), Historical Society, New York; Josephine at Malmaison; Portrait of the King of Rome; Andromache Weeping over the Fate of Astyanax (1817); Portraits of Duchess of Montebello, Mme. A. Talleyrand; Mme. Roland.—Bellier, ii. 320; Clément, Prud'hon sa vie, ses œuvres et sa correspondance (Paris, 1872); Ch. Blanc, École française; Dohme, K. u. K. des xix. Jahrh., ii.; Goncourt, ii. 385; Houssaye, 376; Jal, 1010; Stothert, 154; Gaz. des B. Arts (1869), ii. 377, 495; (1870), iii. 14, 152, 214, 329, 418, 542; (1870), iv. 89; (1874), ix. 564; (1879), xix. 476; (1879), xx. 337, 525; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Zeitschr. f. b. K., xx. 255.

PSYCHE, Mariano Fortuny, W. H. Vanderbilt, New York. Represented as a human butterfly—an ethereal female figure flitting over flowers, sucking their sweets. Photogravure in Art Treasures of America.

PSYCHE AND CUPID, François Gérard, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 6 ft. × 4 ft. 3 in. At left, Psyche, nearly nude, seated upon a hillock, with a butterfly fluttering above her head; Cupid, standing before her, gives her the first kiss of love; in background, hills. Salon, 1798; acquired at sale of General Rapp (1822), 22,100 francs. Engraved by Godefroi; lithographed by A. le Comte.—Cat. Louvre.

Psyche and Cupid, François Gérard, Louvre, Paris.

PSYCHE, HISTORY OF, Raphael and pupils, Farnesina, Rome; fresco, on ceiling of Loggie. Theme from Metamorphoses (Golden Ass) of Appuleius. The myth is represented in twelve pictures, ten on the pendentives of the arches and two (large compositions) on the flat part of the ceiling. In the fourteen lunettes of the bays are Amorini or Cupids, with the attributes of the deities who have done homage to Love. Pendentives: 1, Venus jealous of Psyche; 2, Cupid showing Psyche to the Graces; 3, Venus reproaching Juno and Ceres for pro