A faculty member researching Marianne Moore's poem, Half Deity, is looking
for an illustration of a sculpture alluded to in the poem. I have found
it in Benezit, a plaster model at the salon of 1824 and the marble at the
salon of 1827. It is described as "Psyche trying to capture the butterfly
held out on Zephyr's palm." In French, it is "Zephyr contrariant les
amours d'un papillon et d'une rose" The sculptor is Jean Baptiste Boyer.
Moore refers to it in her book, The Pangolin and Other Verse, p. 23 but we
do not own the book so I can't check to see if she says where she saw it.
(She toured museums in 1911).
I have searched Joconde database.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Ruth S. Thomas
Archaeology, Art, Art History, Classics Bibliographer
Mugar Memorial Library
Boston University
771 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
(617)353-3770
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