Currently not on view
Eagle bringing cup to Psyche,
ca. 1802
Benjamin West, 1738–1820; born Springfield [now Swarthmore], PA; died London, England
y1952-62
Information
Title
Eagle bringing cup to Psyche
Dates
ca. 1802
Maker
Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
29.8 x 42.6 cm (11 3/4 x 16 3/4 in.)
frame: 41.6 × 54 × 5.5 cm (16 3/8 × 21 1/4 × 2 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, John Maclean Magie, Class of 1892, and Gertrude Magie Fund
Object Number
y1952-62
Culture
Type
Materials
Offered by artist's sons to the United States in 1826; sold by them (Robins, London, May 22-25, 1829, lot 79); bought by Richard Cooke (RA, 1784-1857); Vose Galleries, Boston, MA; John F. Braun, Merion, PA, by 1921; purchased by Museum from John Levy Galleries, New York, NY
- Henri Marseau and Fioske Kimball, Benjamin West, 1738-1820 (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1938), no. 41, as “The Archangel Gabriel”
- "Recent acquisitions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 12, no. 1 (1953): p. 38-39., p. 39
- Robert Rosenblum, "Benjamin West's "Eagle Bringing the Cup of Water to Pysche": a document of romantic classicism", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 19, no. 1 (1960): p. 66-75., fig. 1, p. 68 (illus.)
- "Galleries from the bequest of Sterling Morton class of 1906", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 25, no. 1/2 (1966): p. 34-35, 37-38., p. 37 (illus.)
- Helmut von Erffa and Allen Staley, The Paintings of Benjamin West (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986), no. 153; p. 244 (illus.)
- Allen Rosenbaum and Francis F. Jones, Selections from The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1986), p. 248 (illus.)
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 160, cat. no. 36; p. 161 (illus.); p. 319, checklist no. 477
