diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3b4a11cc..d97c23de 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ What's new in psycopg 2.8.6
   (:ticket:`#1101`).
 - Fixed search of mxDateTime headers in virtualenvs (:ticket:`#996`).
 - Added missing values from errorcodes (:ticket:`#1133`).
+- `cursor.query` reports the query of the last :sql:`COPY` opearation too
+  (:ticket:`#1141`).
 - `~psycopg2.errorcodes` map and `~psycopg2.errors` classes updated to
   PostgreSQL 13.
 - Wheel package compiled against OpenSSL 1.1.1g.
diff --git a/psycopg/cursor_type.c b/psycopg/cursor_type.c
index f2dd379a..c290c715 100644
--- a/psycopg/cursor_type.c
+++ b/psycopg/cursor_type.c
@@ -1446,6 +1446,11 @@ curs_copy_from(cursorObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwargs)
 
     Dprintf("curs_copy_from: query = %s", query);
 
+    Py_CLEAR(self->query);
+    if (!(self->query = Bytes_FromString(query))) {
+        goto exit;
+    }
+
     /* This routine stores a borrowed reference.  Although it is only held
      * for the duration of curs_copy_from, nested invocations of
      * Py_BEGIN_ALLOW_THREADS could surrender control to another thread,
@@ -1538,6 +1543,11 @@ curs_copy_to(cursorObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwargs)
 
     Dprintf("curs_copy_to: query = %s", query);
 
+    Py_CLEAR(self->query);
+    if (!(self->query = Bytes_FromString(query))) {
+        goto exit;
+    }
+
     self->copysize = 0;
     Py_INCREF(file);
     self->copyfile = file;
@@ -1615,6 +1625,10 @@ curs_copy_expert(cursorObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwargs)
     Py_INCREF(file);
     self->copyfile = file;
 
+    Py_CLEAR(self->query);
+    Py_INCREF(sql);
+    self->query = sql;
+
     /* At this point, the SQL statement must be str, not unicode */
     if (pq_execute(self, Bytes_AS_STRING(sql), 0, 0, 0) >= 0) {
         res = Py_None;
diff --git a/tests/test_copy.py b/tests/test_copy.py
index 05bef213..9274f1d1 100755
--- a/tests/test_copy.py
+++ b/tests/test_copy.py
@@ -307,6 +307,28 @@ class CopyTests(ConnectingTestCase):
             curs.copy_from, StringIO('aaa\nbbb\nccc\n'), 'tcopy')
         self.assertEqual(curs.rowcount, -1)
 
+    def test_copy_query(self):
+        curs = self.conn.cursor()
+
+        curs.copy_from(StringIO('aaa\nbbb\nccc\n'), 'tcopy', columns=['data'])
+        self.assert_(b"copy " in curs.query.lower())
+        self.assert_(b" from stdin" in curs.query.lower())
+
+        curs.copy_expert(
+            "copy tcopy (data) from stdin",
+            StringIO('ddd\neee\n'))
+        self.assert_(b"copy " in curs.query.lower())
+        self.assert_(b" from stdin" in curs.query.lower())
+
+        curs.copy_to(StringIO(), "tcopy")
+        self.assert_(b"copy " in curs.query.lower())
+        self.assert_(b" to stdout" in curs.query.lower())
+
+        curs.execute("insert into tcopy (data) values ('fff')")
+        curs.copy_expert("copy tcopy to stdout", StringIO())
+        self.assert_(b"copy " in curs.query.lower())
+        self.assert_(b" to stdout" in curs.query.lower())
+
     @slow
     def test_copy_from_segfault(self):
         # issue #219