Cupid and Psyche  1640

Oil on canvas (Museum: Hampton Court Palace) [br] This is the only surviving mythological painting from Van Dyck's employment as Charles I's court artist. It may be one of a series of canvases illustrating the story of Cupid and Psyche ordered for the Queen’s House at Greenwich. This project, which involved Jacob Jordaens and Sir Peter Paul Rubens, was never completed - w...