O son, both arms and hands to me, and source of all my poweryou rule the gods and Jove himself
Venus, in Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.365–.369

Psiche Curieuse, mid-1770s
Giovanni David (Gabella, Liguria 1743–1790 Genoa)
Etching and aquatint, corrected proof with notations in brown ink in margin; plate 11 13/16 x 7 1/2 in. (28.4 x 19 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1976 (1976.629)

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