Oil On Canvas: Mythological Scene With Cupid, A Nymph, And A Faun By Chenavard

A striking French mythological composition from the mid-1800s, belonging to the French academic-Romantic tradition, associated with the circle and school of Paul Chenavard, a Lyon-based painter who was a student of Ingres and a friend of Delacroix. Chenavard is known for his philosophical classicism and his grand historical and symbolic allegories. In the foreground, a young woman with long auburn hair lies on a lion’s skin, her head tilted back in ecstatic abandon. She clutches an arrow between her fingers, a clear reference to the arrow of love. Behind her, a bearded faun—with goat’s hooves and a wreath of vine leaves around his head—approaches, holding a bow. On the right, Cupid—winged and blindfolded—hands him a dagger or snatches it away, while a quiver full of arrows lies on the ground.

Origin: France

Period: mid-1800s

Dimensions: 137 x 106 (h) cm

SKU: 17542