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Eros (Greek deity)

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  • Eros (Cupid) carried in triumph on a chariot drawn by for white horses and surrounded by a crowd; above, putti holding a crown of laurel and the portraits of a man and a woman; below, a rococo cartouche. Ink drawing.
  • Eros (Cupid), holding a bow and arrow, being crowned with laurel by his mother Aphrodite (Venus); two putti are cutting branches of laurel and three putti are playing with arrows in the foreground; below, a rococo cartouche. Ink drawing.
  • Anchises, Dione, and Aeneas (centre); Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (left); Pan and Eros (right). Etching by P. Aquila after Annibale Carracci.
  • Pan and Eros; Salmacis and Hermaphroditus making love. Etching after Annibale Carracci.
  • Pygmalion with his statue of a woman that comes to life. Engraving by J.N. Laugier, 1824, after A.L. Girodet-Trioson, 1819.
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    Pygmalion with his statue of a woman that comes to life. Engraving by J.N. Laugier, 1824, after A.L. Girodet-Trioson, 1819.

    Girodet-Trioson, Anne-Louis, 1767-1824. | Date: 1824 | Reference: 11563i
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    A tryst in a temple of Cupid: two women stand in the temple, and one of them is kissed on the hand by her lover. Engraving attributed to C. Bervic, 180-, after a painting attributed to L.R. Trinquesse, 1786.

    Trinquesse, Louis Rolland, 1745-approximately 1800. | Date: [between 1786 and 1799?] | Reference: 2475454i
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    Eros & Psyche. A poem in twelve measures / by Robert Bridges ; the story done into English from the Latin of Apuleius.

    Apuleius. | Date: 1885
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    Eros (Cupid), holding a bow and arrow, being crowned with laurel by his mother Aphrodite (Venus); two putti are cutting branches of laurel and three putti are playing with arrows in the foreground; below, a rococo cartouche. Ink drawing.

    | Reference: 570765i
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    Eros (Cupid) carried in triumph on a chariot drawn by for white horses and surrounded by a crowd; above, putti holding a crown of laurel and the portraits of a man and a woman; below, a rococo cartouche. Ink drawing.

    | Reference: 570767i
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