Cupid sharpening an arrow on a rock. Stipple engraving by J.F. Cazenave and A. Chaponnier after R. Lefèvre.

  • Lefèvre, Robert Jacques François Faust, 1755-1830.
Date:
[between 1810 and 1819?]
Reference:
2533341i
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Description

Cupid kneels to sharpen an arrow on a rock, while water from a spring keeps it cool

Publication/Creation

Paris (Rue Pelletier, No.3) : chez Ostervald l'ainé, [between 1810 and 1819?]

Physical description

1 print : stipple engraving, with etching ; platemark 40.4 x 32.3 cm

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Lettering

L'Amour aiguisant ses traits. Le Fèvre pinx.t ; terminé par Chaponnier ; Cazenave sculp.t Lettering includes "Dép.é à la Bibl.e N.le", i.e. Déposé à la Bibliothèque Nationale

References note

Not found in: Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome IV, Paris 1949 pp. 178-182 (inventory of works by J.F. Cazenave after 1800)
Not found in: the Image of France database, 2015

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2533341i

Reproduction note

After: a painting by Titian in the Borghese Gallery, Rome, engraved with lettering "Omnia vincit amor"

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