Cupidon

This French Neoclassical painting by William Adolphe Bouguereau is a beautiful and realistic image of Cupid or Eros in a modest pose with his famous bow lying at his feet. The work was created in 1875. The artist died in 1905 at the age of eighty years.  The original of this masterpiece is 20 inches wide and 37 inches high.  It is at the Bridgeman Art Library, London

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Eros and Zeus by Peter Paul Rubens

This is a reproduction of "Cupid Supplicating Jupiter" by Peter Paul Rubens of about 1614.  The relation between Eros and Zeus was complicated by the power that the love had over the Father of the Gods.  His amorous adventures were legend and the source of constant difficulties with his wife and queen.  This work shows the frenetic energy and lust ebullience that mark many of Rubens' paintings and depicts the asking of Eros for the hand of Psyche in marriage.  Rubens was about fifty-one years old when he produced this work and he died twenty-six years later.  The masterpiece is at the Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey.

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