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Iconography | |
GODS & MYTHS | |
Amoretti | |
→ With other figures → Amor and Psyche | |
Amor | |
→ Myths → Amor and Psyche → Single figures → Amor and Psyche together, not embracing |
Further details | |
Cupid is here represented as a young man with outstretched wings, conveying the swooning Psyche through the clouds, surrounded by 'amorini' or little winged putti (which are characteristic of Clodion's work) | |
ARTIST/CREATOR | |
Clodion (Claude Michel Clodion) (1738-1814) | |
DATE | |
1797 - 1800 circa | |
LOCATION | |
London, Victoria & Albert Museum (Inv. A.23-1958) |
Notes on photograph | |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATION | |
Williamson, P. (ed.), European Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1996, pp. 166-7; Keutner, Herbert. A History of Western Sculpture -Renaissance to Rococo, London, 1969, plate 335, p. 347; Arnason, H. H., The Sculptures of Houdon, London, 1975, fig. 34, p. 6. |
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RELATIONS | |
London, Victoria and Albert Museum |
Acknowledgements | Record created with the generous support of the Dean's Development Fund of the School of Advanced Study, University of London |
Contact | For comments or queries, please contact photographic.collect@sas.ac.uk |