A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE MODELS OF THE MENACING CUPID AND A NYMPH HIDING CUPID'S BOW, after Etienne-Maurice Falconet, each on an ormolu base, the nymph's attribute lacking,second quarter 19th Century

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A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE MODELS OF THE MENACING CUPID AND A NYMPH HIDING CUPID'S BOW, after Etienne-Maurice Falconet, each on an ormolu base, the nymph's attribute lacking,second quarter 19th Century

10¼in. and 10½in. (26cm. and 26.7cm.) high (2)

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
G. Levitine, The Scupture of Falconet, Greenwich, 1972, figs. 55-56

拍品专文

Falconet's celebrated model of the 'Menacing Cupid' was first exhibited in plaster in 1755 and the marble in 1757. The latter was commissioned for Madame de Pompadour and was later placed in her Parisian hôtel. The little girl hiding Cupid's bow was originally exhibited in 1761 and the two were reproduced as pendant figures in Sèvres biscuit as well as in bronze.