Antonio Canova revived the language of antiquity in marble, shaping figures with refined elegance and sensual calm. In works such as Amor and Psyche or Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix, he polished stone into luminous flesh, embodying the Enlightenment ideals of harmony, reason, and idealized beauty. Neoclassicism in his hands became marble poetry: serenity suspended in form, the eternal captured in the perfection of surface. This piece recalls Canova’s smooth, gleaming marble, delicate contrapposto, and ethereal grace. Pepe supplants the mythic lover, a comic emblem inserted into the stillness of Neoclassical perfection, mocking yet also amplifying the serene artifice of Canova’s vision.