Boy as Cupid

Joseph Chinard French

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Chinard, who often invested his portraits with mythological overtones, here alludes to the myth of Cupid and Psyche; the boy's bow and arrow associate him with Cupid, and at the base his arrow pierces a butterfly, the attribute of Psyche.

Boy as Cupid, Joseph Chinard (French, Lyon 1756–1813 Lyon), Plaster, painted to resemble terracotta, French, Lyons

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Boy as Cupid, Joseph Chinard (French, Lyon 1756–1813 Lyon), Plaster, painted to resemble terracotta, French, Lyons
Boy as Cupid, Joseph Chinard (French, Lyon 1756–1813 Lyon), Plaster, painted to resemble terracotta, French, Lyons

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