Ernst Oskar Simonson-Castelli, Mourning Psyche
the beautiful Psyche in mourning for her lover Cupid, who left ...

Ernst Oskar Simonson-Castelli, Mourning Psyche
the beautiful Psyche in mourning for her lover Cupid, who left her after she burnt him with a drop of hot oil from her oil lamp, the painting was also reproduced as an artist's postcard at the time, atmospheric, little impasto mythological depiction with beautiful details, oil on canvas, early 20th c., signed lower right "E. O. Simonson Castelli", partial craquelure, some scratches in the painting surface, canvas mended (backed) and retouched, somewhat in need of cleaning, framed, folding dimensions approx. 83 x 60.5 cm. Artist info: Germ. Painter (1864 Dresden to 1929 Dresden), son of the portrait and history painter David Simonson, studied at the academy in Dresden under Ferdinand Pauwels, from 1890 in Munich and here pupil of his brother-in-law Gotthardt Kuehl, from 1892 studied at the Académie Julian with Jules Duprés, settled in his hometown Dresden in 1893 and worked as a freelance painter, called himself Simonson-Castelli from 1898, in 1899 awarded the title of professor by the Academy of Arts in Urbino, Source: Thieme-Becker and Wikipedia.