Cupid's Arrival

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Cupid's arrival.

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Artist

Name:
Klinger, Max
Dates:
1857-1920
Country:
Germany

Illustration

Subject:
Narratives
Technique:
Etching
Format:
Portrait (taller)
Source:
The Getty Research Institute, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:
Amor und Psyche
Author:
Apuleius
Publisher:
Munich: Theo. Stroefer's Kunstverlag, n.d. [1880]
Open Library:
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Description:

Cupid, depicted as an athletic young man with wings, has landed onto a tiled terrace and pulls aside a curtain screening a high doorway, in order to peer into the building.

The caption reads in the original German: Amor kommend.

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