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Date : 1769
Material : White marble
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European Painting
Sculpture
Area related
France
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This exquisitely modeled figure of woman nursing a child slowly reveals its allegorical subject to the viewer. The anchor nestled beside the female figure identifies her as Hope and the feathery wings on the smaller figure's elongated back indicate that he is Cupid, the Roman god of love. Set within downy clouds and diaphanous drapery, this sculpture exemplifies the eighteenth-century Rococo taste for gently erotic imagery thinly disguised by the nobility of the subject.
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