Lot 511
Love Triumphant After NF Gillet (1712-1791)
LOVE TRIUMPHANT
Auction: Fine Antiques
Description
A large plaster study depicting Cupid resting against a festooned tree stump gazing forward, about to draw an arrow from his quiver, on a substantial cylindrical moulded pedestal draped with gold painted ribbon tied with festoons of summer flowers, on plinth base, stamped Musee Du Louvre and inscribed around the top edge: 'Qui que tu sois, voici ton maitre.. il l'est le fut, ou le doit etre' (whoever you are, here is your master.. he is or he should be - i.e. love)
Dimensions
Cupid 130 cm high, pedestal 103 cm high
Footnote
Provenance: Ballroom of the Warwick Hotel- Houston Landmark
The original version in marble is within the Musee Louvre, another version is held at the Wallace Collection in London. See Wallace Collection Catalogues: 'Sculpture' by J.G. Mann, London 1981, fig 527.
Interestingly, Cupid's pupils are rendered as heart shaped