Cupid Captive
Created by Charles-Auguste Fraikin
Date: 1853
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: statue
Technique: carved
Description: 'Cupid Captive, from the statue by C. A. Fraikin, in the exhibition of the Industry of All Nations'.
Cupid caught by finger on right hand and by left foot by female nude, whose torso draperies and hair flowing and right leg raised from ground as though running - great expression of movement.
Notes: Engraved by J. H. Baker.
Sources
Illustrated Catalogue of the Exhibition of Art Industry in Dublin, 1853.
1853
p. viii (sculpture listing); print after engraving also featured betweeen pp. 28-29.
Citing this record
'Cupid Captive', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib3_1214922435, accessed 25 May 2019]
