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SM SC34. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Art UK
John Flaxman RA (1755 - 1826), sculptor
Model, ‘Psyche’
Plaster
Height: 39cm
Diameter (base): 9in
Diameter (base): 9in
Museum number: SC34
On display: Tivoli Recess (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
Draped female figure, with butterfly’s wings, half-kneeling, her l. hand to her face, her right arm across her left thigh.
Companion figure to Cupid (SC33) and presumably the model for the marble which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1824 (no 1012). This and the companion figure of Cupid (SC33) were executed in marble for the poet Samuel Rogers and the marbles were in his collection in 1836.
The casts are recorded in the 1835 Description as being in the Tivoli Recess. In 2012 this sculpture was reinstated in its original position in the recreated Tivoli Recess as part of Phase 2 of Opening up the Soane.
Companion figure to Cupid (SC33) and presumably the model for the marble which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1824 (no 1012). This and the companion figure of Cupid (SC33) were executed in marble for the poet Samuel Rogers and the marbles were in his collection in 1836.
The casts are recorded in the 1835 Description as being in the Tivoli Recess. In 2012 this sculpture was reinstated in its original position in the recreated Tivoli Recess as part of Phase 2 of Opening up the Soane.
Literature
Sir John Soane, Description of the house and museum on the north side of Lincoln's Inn Fields, the residence of Sir John Soane, 1835, p.84.
Helen Dorey ‘Soane and Flaxman’ in Flaxman: Master of the Purest Line, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum 2003
Helen Dorey ‘Soane and Flaxman’ in Flaxman: Master of the Purest Line, Exhibition Catalogue, Sir John Soane’s Museum 2003
Associated items
SC33, pair
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