Psyche carried on a litter to a mountain top by Apollo. Four men carry the litter, accompanied by putti with torches, heralds with horns. From a 1661 haute-lisse tapestry in silk and gold made for Anne of Austria, Queen of France, now in Mr. de Lescalopier's collection. France, XVIIe siecle. Chromolithograph by Kause after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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