- Title:
Tekemessa and Eurysakes
- Former Title(s):
Eros reviving Psyche [1812, Royal Academy of Arts, London, exhibition catalogue]
- Date:
- between 1800 and 1810
- Medium:
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions:
- 40 7/8 x 32 5/8 inches (103.8 x 82.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Label on verso, upper left: “Painting in England, 1700-1850 | The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Richmond 20 | Artist: Henry Fuseli, R.A. | Title: ‘Eros Reviving Psyche (?)’ | Cat. No. 376 | Medium: Oil on Canvas Loan No.: | Insure for: Sales Price: | Lender: Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon | Address: Upperville, Virginia | Please fill in and attach securely to work before sending to museum”; upper left: “Pitt & Scott Ltd. | London | Item No. 6771 | A/N No. [handwritten] 221”
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1976.7.29
- Classification:
- Paintings
- Collection:
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Link to Frame:
- B1976.7.29FR
- Subject Terms:
- affection | black | child | death | grief | mourning | mythology | nude | religious and mythological subject | son | suicide | wife | woman
- Associated People:
- Eurysaces
- Access:
- Not on view
Note: To make an appointment to see this work, please contact the Paintings and Sculpture department at ycba.paintings@yale.edu. Please visit the Paintings and Sculpture collections page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:268
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Love, Life, Death, and Desire: An Installation of the Center's Collections (Yale Center for British Art, 2020-10-01 - 2021-02-28) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Fuseli - Drama and Theatre (Kunstmuseum Basel, 2018-10-20 - 2019-02-10) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 96-97, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Exhibition Catalogue. 1812. 44th., Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, no. 44, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1812, p. 6, no. 89, N5054 A53 29-49 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 197 (v.1), no. 376, pl. 86, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Gert Schiff, L'Opera Completa di Fussli, Rizzoli, Milan, 1977, pp. 102, 103, no. 218, fig. 213, NJ18 F98 A12 S34 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]