{"id":226393,"date":"2025-03-05T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/?p=226393"},"modified":"2025-03-05T13:52:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T12:52:38","slug":"psyche-cupidon-louvre-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/sortir-paris\/tendances-culture\/psyche-cupidon-louvre-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Dans quel mus\u00e9e parisien se trouve cette sculpture mythique symbolisant l&rsquo;amour ?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psych\u00e9 endormie, Cupidon venant la secourir&#8230; cette <strong>sculpture en marbre<\/strong> r\u00e9alis\u00e9e \u00e0 la fin du XVIIIe si\u00e8cle est un symbole de l&rsquo;amour. Con\u00e7ue par l&rsquo;artiste v\u00e9nitien Antonio Canova, elle est d\u00e9sormais expos\u00e9e dans l&rsquo;un des plus grands mus\u00e9es de France.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Un marbre du Louvre\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Command\u00e9e par le collectionneur d&rsquo;art anglais John Campbell en 1787, cette sculpture en marbre repr\u00e9sentant Psych\u00e9 et Cupidon a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9alis\u00e9e par <strong>Antonio Canova<\/strong> et finalement acquise par Joachim Murat, roi de Naples, qui fut le mar\u00e9chal d&rsquo;Empire\u00a0de\u00a0Napol\u00e9on Ier. Apr\u00e8s de nombreux essais, l&rsquo;artiste a cr\u00e9\u00e9 son oeuvre finale entre 1787 et 1793.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_222544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-222544\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-222544 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/musee-du-louvre-1.webp\" alt=\"Mus\u00e9e du Louvre \u00a9 Adobe Stock\" width=\"1200\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/musee-du-louvre-1.webp 1200w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/musee-du-louvre-1-554x300.webp 554w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/musee-du-louvre-1-1024x555.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/musee-du-louvre-1-768x416.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/musee-du-louvre-1-200x108.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/musee-du-louvre-1-80x43.webp 80w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/musee-du-louvre-1-500x271.webp 500w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/musee-du-louvre-1-700x379.webp 700w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/musee-du-louvre-1-1000x542.webp 1000w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/musee-du-louvre-1-923x500.webp 923w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/musee-du-louvre-1-300x163.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-222544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mus\u00e9e du Louvre \u00a9 Adobe Stock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Le sculpteur est parvenu \u00e0 retranscrire finement la peau lisse, le drap\u00e9 du tissu et les d\u00e9tails des ailes de l&rsquo;ange, qui a suscit\u00e9 l&rsquo;admiration de ses contemporains. Aujourd&rsquo;hui, elle repose parmi les collections du <strong>mus\u00e9e du Louvre<\/strong> : celle-ci se situe exactement dans l&rsquo;aile Denon, au rez-de-chauss\u00e9e de l&rsquo;\u00e9difice, au sein de la galerie Michel-Ange (salle 403).<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Le mythe de Psych\u00e9<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Nomm\u00e9e <i>Psych\u00e9 ranim\u00e9e par le baiser de l&rsquo;Amour, <\/i>l&rsquo;oeuvre en marbre rappelle le <strong>mythe de Psych\u00e9<\/strong>, rapport\u00e9 dans\u00a0<i>Les M\u00e9tamorphoses<\/i> par Apul\u00e9e. La princesse Psych\u00e9 (signifiant \u00ab\u00a0\u00e2me\u00a0\u00bb en grec ancien) a une beaut\u00e9 extraordinaire qui effraie ses pr\u00e9tendants et rend jalouse Aphrodite, la d\u00e9esse de l\u2019amour. Cette derni\u00e8re d\u00e9cide alors d&rsquo;envoyer Cupidon tirer une fl\u00e8che dans le c\u0153ur de la princesse pour la rendre amoureuse du mortel le plus m\u00e9prisable qui soit. Mais en la voyant, Cupidon tombe amoureux d&rsquo;elle et souhaite vivre \u00e0 ses c\u00f4t\u00e9s. Aphrodite, folle de rage, plonge alors Psych\u00e9 dans un profond sommeil, mais son amant vient la secourir par un baiser.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_226396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226396\" style=\"width: 1066px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-226396 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_psiche_rianimata_dal_bacio_di_amore_1788-1793_02.jpg\" alt=\"Psych\u00e9 ranim\u00e9e par le baiser de l'Amour est un groupe statuaire en marbre sculpt\u00e9 entre 1787 et 1793 par Antonio Canova\" width=\"1066\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_psiche_rianimata_dal_bacio_di_amore_1788-1793_02.jpg 1066w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_psiche_rianimata_dal_bacio_di_amore_1788-1793_02-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_psiche_rianimata_dal_bacio_di_amore_1788-1793_02-910x1024.jpg 910w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_psiche_rianimata_dal_bacio_di_amore_1788-1793_02-768x865.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_psiche_rianimata_dal_bacio_di_amore_1788-1793_02-178x200.jpg 178w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_psiche_rianimata_dal_bacio_di_amore_1788-1793_02-80x90.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_psiche_rianimata_dal_bacio_di_amore_1788-1793_02-500x563.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_psiche_rianimata_dal_bacio_di_amore_1788-1793_02-700x788.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_psiche_rianimata_dal_bacio_di_amore_1788-1793_02-1000x1126.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_psiche_rianimata_dal_bacio_di_amore_1788-1793_02-444x500.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_psiche_rianimata_dal_bacio_di_amore_1788-1793_02-300x338.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1066px) 100vw, 1066px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-226396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio Canova, Psych\u00e9 ranim\u00e9e par le baiser de l&rsquo;Amour, entre 1787 et 1793<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Qui \u00e9tait Antonio Canova ?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Sculpteur\u00a0et\u00a0peintre\u00a0v\u00e9nitien, <strong>Antonio Canova (<time class=\"nowrap\" datetime=\"1757-11-01\" data-sort-value=\"1757-11-01\">1757-<\/time><\/strong><time class=\"nowrap\" datetime=\"1822-10-13\" data-sort-value=\"1822-10-13\"><strong>1822)<\/strong> est notamment connu pour ses marbres, repr\u00e9sentant des sc\u00e8nes mythologiques, que l&rsquo;on peut notamment d\u00e9couvrir dans la basilique des Saints-Ap\u00f4tres de Rome, ou la basilique Santa Croce de Florence. Son style est reconnaissable <\/time>par l&rsquo;\u00e9l\u00e9gance des formes et le r\u00e9alisme apport\u00e9 \u00e0 certains motifs. Appr\u00e9ci\u00e9 par Napol\u00e9on Ier ou le pape Pie VII, il d\u00e9die une partie de sa fortune au soutien de jeunes artistes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_226395\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-226395\" style=\"width: 962px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-226395 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_selfportrait_1792-1.jpg\" alt=\"Antonio Canova, Autoportrait, 1792\" width=\"962\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_selfportrait_1792-1.jpg 962w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_selfportrait_1792-1-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_selfportrait_1792-1-821x1024.jpg 821w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_selfportrait_1792-1-768x958.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_selfportrait_1792-1-160x200.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_selfportrait_1792-1-80x100.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_selfportrait_1792-1-500x624.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_selfportrait_1792-1-700x873.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_selfportrait_1792-1-401x500.jpg 401w, https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/antonio_canova_selfportrait_1792-1-300x374.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 962px) 100vw, 962px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-226395\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Antonio Canova, Autoportrait, 1792<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u00c0 lire \u00e9galement : <a title=\"Inondations, avaries, obsolescences\u2026 la pr\u00e9sidente-directrice du Louvre tire la sonnette d\u2019alarme sur la sant\u00e9 du mus\u00e9e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/paris-au-quotidien\/actualites-paris\/vetuste-musee-louvre\/\">Inondations, avaries, obsolescences\u2026 la pr\u00e9sidente-directrice du Louvre tire la sonnette d\u2019alarme sur la sant\u00e9 du mus\u00e9e<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Image \u00e0 la une : <\/span><\/strong>Antonio Canova, <em>Psych\u00e9 ranim\u00e9e par le baiser de l&rsquo;Amour<\/em>, entre 1787 et 1793 &#8211; \u00a9 Adobe Stock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psych\u00e9 endormie, Cupidon venant la secourir&#8230; cette sculpture en marbre r\u00e9alis\u00e9e \u00e0 la fin du XVIIIe si\u00e8cle est un symbole de l&rsquo;amour. Con\u00e7ue par l&rsquo;artiste v\u00e9nitien Antonio Canova, elle est d\u00e9sormais expos\u00e9e dans l&rsquo;un des plus grands mus\u00e9es de France. Un marbre du Louvre\u00a0 Command\u00e9e par le collectionneur d&rsquo;art anglais John Campbell en 1787, cette [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":226397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"O\u00f9 se trouve cette sculpture symbolisant l&#039;amour ?\u00a0","_seopress_titles_desc":"Cette sculpture en marbre r\u00e9alis\u00e9e \u00e0 la fin du XVIIIe si\u00e8cle est d\u00e9sormais expos\u00e9e dans l&#039;un des plus grands mus\u00e9es de France.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"1146","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"Dans quel mus\u00e9e parisien se trouve cette sculpture mythique symbolisant l&#039;amour ?\u00a0","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/adobestock_813783151_psyche-amour-louvre-paris-zigzag.jpg","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1177,1146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sortir-paris","category-tendances-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226393"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226426,"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226393\/revisions\/226426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/226397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pariszigzag.fr\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}