Edward Burne-Jones - Study for the Court of Venus

Inscribed R; oil on canvas, 14 × 20½ ins

Burne-Jones painted this study in the mid 1860s. The subject is taken from the
Cupid and Psyche story in The Earthly Paradise. He never completed the painting
although a more finished red chalk drawing is in existence (private collection,
England). During the period 1864–1868 nearly all the paintings that he made were
from the designs for The Earthly Paradise