 Between 1706 and 1715, the sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Younger, working in Rome, was faced with the restoration of a fragmented antique group of "Amor and Psyche" for the Portuguese ambassador.Thriving on invention, he turned the love story on its head and depicted the theme of "Caunus and Byblis" in which Caunus vehemently defends himself against the sexual advances of his sister.While Le Gros' invention ended up in Germany and was purified back to "Amor and Psyche" before being destroyed in a fire in 1931, it triggered a rafter of drawings, reproductions and copies by for example Pompeo Batoni, Francesco Carradori, Martin Klauer and, best known of all, two marble versions by Laurent Delvaux.