Cupid Wounding Psyche
1741
François Boucher, the ultimate rockstar of the Rococo movement, serves up a cloud-dwelling love scene here. You've got Cupid and Psyche lounging in a pastel dreamscape, surrounded by chubby cherubs—one aiming a bow, another clutching flowers. It's pure 18th-century French flirtation, capturing the moment love strikes. Boucher was the favorite painter of Madame de Pompadour, and this sugary, romantic drama is exactly what her court loved. The distinctively shaped wooden frame suggests this was a decorative panel, likely meant to fit perfectly into a ceiling or wall niche of a grand French home.
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