"Bronze Sculpture "love With A Butterfly". A. Chaudet, 19th Century. Cupid"
Antoine-Denis CHAUDET (1763-1810), Paris, early 19th century. Neo-classical sculpture, in bronze with brown patina, entitled "Love taking a butterfly".
Signed Chaudet on the base.
Love in the guise of a winged adolescent playing with a butterfly that has come to pollinate a rose.
In Greek mythology, the butterfly is associated with Psyche, the goddess representing the human soul.
Height: 21cm x W 20cm x D 11cm
Antoine-Denis CHAUDET is a French sculptor and painter, 1st Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1784. Member of the Académie de France in Rome then at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture and finally professor at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. The original of this sculpture, in marble, dating from 1817, completed posthumously, is now exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
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