拍品 1267
1267
A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE FIGURES OF THE MENACING CUPID AND A NYMPH HIDING CUPID'S BOW
A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE FIGURES OF THE MENACING CUPID AND A NYMPH HIDING CUPID'S BOW

MID-19TH CENTURY, AFTER ETIENNE-MAURICE FALCONET

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A PAIR OF FRENCH BRONZE FIGURES OF THE MENACING CUPID AND A NYMPH HIDING CUPID'S BOW
MID-19TH CENTURY, AFTER ETIENNE-MAURICE FALCONET
Greenish brown patina
10½ in. (27 cm.) high (2)

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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 (G. Levitine, The Scupture of Falconet, Greenwich, 1972, figs. 55-56). The nymph 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.