The print is the point
Anyone can sell the image — it’s public domain. What you’re buying here is the object: how faithfully, and how durably, the masterwork lands on your wall.
- Museum-grade cotton-rag
- Heavyweight archival cotton-rag stock — the same acid-free paper conservators trust — not thin poster stock.
- Archival pigment, 100+ years
- Pigment inks, not dye: rated to hold their colour past a century without fading or shifting.
- Colour-managed to the source
- Each file is profiled to the holding institution’s own scan, so the print reads as the painting does.
- Gallery canvas on solid wood
- Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
The Abduction of Psyche
Love carrying the soul up into the light.
- Work
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau, The Abduction of Psyche (L’Enlèvement de Psyché)
- Artist / creator
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825–1905)
- Origin & date
- Paris, 1895
- Held by
- Private collection
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 8x10 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
Cupid lifts Psyche into the air — the god of love carrying the human soul (which is what her name means) up toward the heavens, her body arced back in a swoon, his great blue-grey wings beating below them. Bouguereau makes the impossible look weightless: two figures rising against an open sky, joined at the lips, the whole composition a single soaring diagonal. It is the culmination of the ancient love story of Cupid and Psyche, the mortal girl made immortal by love. The academic finish is flawless, the sentiment unashamed. Few paintings capture pure ascending rapture as directly — the soul, quite literally, swept off its feet.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Private collection’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guaranteed.


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