Cupid
Datec. 1918
Artist
Rachel Cassels Brown
(Scottish artist, children's illustrator, lithographer and etcher, 1875–1953)
MediumSoft ground etching
Dimensionsplate: 3 15/16 × 2 15/16 in. (10 × 7.5 cm)
sheet: 8 × 5 1/4 in. (20.3 × 13.3 cm)
sheet: 8 × 5 1/4 in. (20.3 × 13.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robin & Cynthia Fanshawe, 2010
Object number2010-4
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextCupids, cherubs, and nymphs were common subjects in Brown’s work. Here the tiny figure indulges an appetite for the plentiful grapes hanging in the glen in which he kneels. The stylized depiction of the fruit forms an art nouveau-inspired pattern.
