 After his death the statue entered the Louvre Museum in Paris, France in 1824;
Prince Yusupov, a Russian nobleman acquired the 2nd version of the piece from Canova in Rome in 1796, and it later entered the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.A full-scale model for the 2nd version is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Having been recently awakened, Psyche reaches up towards her lover, Cupid, as he gently holds her by supporting her head and breast.