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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 |