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Object Type
Museum number: 1875,1009.355
Title: Object: L'Amour clair-voyant
Description: Eros in a landscape holding bow and taking arrow from quiver; tree in the background to left; after Vanloo. 1799/1801 Etching and engraving
Producer name: After: Carle Van Loo; Print made by: Ignaz Sebastian Klauber
School/style: German; French
Production date: 1799-1801
Materials
Technique: engraving; etching
Dimensions: Height: 432 millimetres; Width: 311 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Possible a pair with Mechel's 'L'Amour Menaçant', see 1873,0712.365. Engraved after Joseph's marriage with Alexandra Pavlovna (1799), and before the latter's death (1801).
Bibliographic references: Apell 1880 / Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler, oder Lexikon der vorzuglichsten Kupferstecher des 19 Jahrhunderts (3); IFF / Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes (5)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: classical mythology; classical deity
Associated names: Representation of: Eros/Cupid; Associated with: Archduke Joseph of Austria, Palatine of Hungary; Associated with: Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1875
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1875,1009.355

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