print
- Museum number
- 1929,0611.10
- Title
- Object: L'Amour précepteur (Cupid Teaching)
- Description
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Cupid, with cassock and cloak hiding his wings and his quiver, seated in an armchair and presenting Ovid's 'The Art of Love' to a young girl kneeling before him; three other girls in the background. 1730
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1730
- Dimensions
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Height: 397 millimetres
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Width: 260 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- After a pastel by Coypel, c.1730, formerly in the collection of the Count of Morville and now lost; Coypel also did a painting of the same subject c.1740, which is now kept in a private collection in England; also see Thierry François, 'Charles Coypel 1694-1752', Paris 1994, cat. no. P114 and G2.
IFF describes a different state, without Surugue's address, and with Lépicié's address given as 'rue St Jqcues au dessus des Jacobins'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2017-18 Sept-Jan, BM, G90, The Business of Prints
- Acquisition date
- 1929
- Acquisition notes
- sale Boerner 13/5 May 1929, lot 226
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1929,0611.10
