Antonio Canova's statue Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss; first commissioned in 1787; exemplifies the Neoclassical devotion to love and emotion. It represents the god Cupid in the height of love and tenderness; immediately after awakening the lifeless Psyche with a kiss; a scene excerpted from Lucius Apuleius' The Golden Ass. A masterpiece of its period; it appeals to the senses of sight and touch; yet simultaneously alludes to the Romantic interest in emotion co-existing with Neoclassicism.

Joachim Murat donated the first version (pictured) to the Louvre Museum in Paris; France in 1824; Prince Yusupov; a Russian nobleman who acquired the piece in Rome in 1796; gave a later version (created in 1796) to the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. The plaster cast for this later version is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.