Who sculpted "Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss"?

Antonio Canova sculpted Psyche Revived by Cupid’s Kiss.

Canova, the leading Italian sculptor of Neoclassicism, began the first version after a commission from Colonel John Campbell in 1787 and completed it in 1793. The marble group shows Cupid embracing Psyche immediately after awakening her with a kiss, a moment drawn from the story of Cupid and Psyche in Apuleius’s ancient novel The Golden Ass.

The sculpture combines Neoclassical precision with unusually tender movement and emotional intimacy. Cupid’s wings, Psyche’s reaching arms, the jar beside her, and the nearby arrow all refer to episodes in the myth. Its interlocking bodies and sweeping curves also encourage viewers to walk around the work rather than rely on one fixed viewpoint.

There are two principal marble versions, which can cause confusion about the work’s location. The first version is in the Louvre in Paris, while a second version is in the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. Canova’s sculpture is classified as Neoclassical, even though its intense emotion anticipates aspects of Romanticism.