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| Keywords: Sketch of a French Empire style clock. Cupid holding a rose.jpg en Watercolor and gouache over lithographic line on paper Inscribed J B A / Impie Litographique de C Motte Rue des Marais No 13 Numbered 19 Dimensions 67 4cm by 50 8cm To be executed in gilt bronze; silvered metal dial The deity winged and in a tunic stands aside a lyre-topped altar of Love with the clock dial in the flower-decorated front his bow quiver and laurel crown to the other side the frieze with garlanded torches within circlets flanking Cupid crouching on an altar of love Although one of the lesser gods in Ancient mythology Cupid Latin Amor; Greek Eros was frequently depicted in Renaissance and later art often to signify that the subject or theme depicted was one of love His attributes are the bow arrow and quiver; the lyre is an attribute of Apollo see cat 26 in his role as patron of poetry music and leader of the Muses the gods of the performing arts; the rose in Antiquity was sacred to Venus the goddess of Love “ the pricks from its thorns representing the wounds of Love which is fired by Cupid ™s arrows This design is thus a paean to Love and love poetry http //watercolours-drawings com/details asp subGalID 5 index 4 author between 1815 1820 PD-Art French Empire style mantel clock Sketches Cupid on clocks | ||||
