Attributed to Lambert van Noort

Three small cupids lift Psyche up to Olympus in this panel. The group comes from Raphael's frescoes in the loggia of the Villa Farnesina in Rome, reworked through an engraving of about 1545 by Nicolas Beatrizet, a French engraver in Rome, which set it floating over a landscape. The Borghese inventory of 1693 called the panel a Raphael. Later it was given to Giovanni da Udine, Raphael's decorator, and for a long time to Battista Dossi of Ferrara.

In 1995 the Belgian scholar Nicole Dacos, a specialist in northern artists in Rome, proposed Lambert van Noort, comparing the panel with his signed Assumption in Ferrara, and her view has been widely accepted. The museum still writes attributed to because the proposal rests on that comparison.

Van Noort was born in Amersfoort in the northern Netherlands around 1520 and was in Italy in the 1540s. By 1549 he was back in Antwerp, working as a painter, architect and designer of stained glass, and around 1560 he drew the cartoons for windows in the Sint-Janskerk in Gouda. He died in Antwerp in 1571.