One of the things that I found so stricking about this painting, and the reason that I wanted to feature it here on my blog, is the fact that for those that do not know, Pysche was a mortal woman, whom was so beautiful it was said that Venus herself, the Goddess of Love and Beauty was jealous of her, and ordered her son Cupid, or Eros, to kill her but he ended up falling in love with her. And I loved the fact that this artist, portrayed this woman who was said to outsine the Goddess herself, as a lush, valuptous, full figured curvacious woman. It is quite beautiful and incrediable I thought, particulary from an Amercian artist, as such images are not altogether unknown for the European artists particuarly in the Renisance, but this was an 1800s Amercian Artist who chose this rendition of Pysche.