Strong, Eugénie: Catalogue of the Greek & Roman antiques in the possession of the right honourable Lord Melchett at Melchet Court and 35 Lowndes Square (Oxford [u.a.], 1928)

itself belongs to a class of works including the famous 'Menelaos with the dead body of
Patroclos' (Pasquino) and the Ludovisi 'Gaul with his wife'.28

The expression of the Psyche, however, the treatment of her hair, in short her 'gesture'—
bring her closer to the Nereid of Ostia than to any other work, while the Nereid has been
shown by Giglioli and others to have affinities to the 'Skopadic' Maenad of Dresden
(Fig. 8)29, though all three are later than the master of Paros, and form a link between his
rendering of emotion and the more violent manner of the Pergamene.
The shudder of the Soul as she knows herself in the grip of love and feels the nearness of
the consuming fire, could not be more poignantly conveyed than in this little group which
veils the austere theme in what at first sight appears a mere episode in a children's game.
Judging from the marble, it was almost certainly executed in Greece; the technique (see
the lovely lids of the Psyche) is of the greatest delicacy and beauty. The fragment, if not
from the original, comes from a very fine copy by a Greek chisel.
From the Henriette Hertz Collection at Rome.

[Since the above was written, the fragment has been properly mounted at the British
Museum. As shown in Plate XIX, after new photographs, this has brought out to an
even greater degree the beauty of outline and modelling, and the piece may almost
certainly be pronounced an original.]