Cupid Seller
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Cupid Seller[1] (1763) is a painting by French artist Joseph-Marie Vien.
- "Vien’s Cupid Seller was based on an ancient Roman wall fresco unearthed in Naples that was engraved and included in the recently published multi-volume Le Antichita di Ercolano (The Antiquities of Herculaneum). The engraving (below) differs from the original fresco in substituting cupids for winged phalluses."[2]
The painting is based on a fresco found in the Villa di Arianna at Stabiae and depicts "an older woman forcefully lifting a winged Cupid from a cage and offering it to a potential buyer."[3]
Vien's painting was reproduced in an engraving[4] by Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, not a literal copy, "the figures adopt contemporary poses and gestures—the Cupid's is clearly obscene."[5]
The scene was also reimagined by Henry Fuseli in 1775.
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![[1]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b9/The_Cupid_Seller_1763_Joseph-Marie_Vien.jpg){kind=link}
![[4]](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacques_Firmin_Beauvarlet_-_3.jpg){kind=link}