Les Amours de Psyché et de Cupidon

1791

Jean de La Fontaine

Author, French, 1621 - 1695

Jacques Bonnefoy

Artist, French, active late 18th century

Madame de Monchy

Artist, French, active 18th century

Nicolas Colibert

Artist, French, 1754-1806

Various Artists

Artist

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with letterpress title page text on laid paper and 4 color stipple engravings inked à la poupée on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    book: 34.2 × 26.2 × 3 cm (13 7/16 × 10 5/16 × 1 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.1588

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Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1912

  • Cohen, Henri. Guide de l'amateur de livres a gravures de XVIIIe siecle. 6th edition revised and enlarged by Seymour de Ricci. Paris, 1912: col.582.

Inscriptions

in gold-tooled letters on red leather label on brown leather spine: PSYCHÉ / ET / CUPIDON

Markings

on front free endpaper: bookplates of Clarence S. Bemens and Joseph Widener

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