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- Filippo della Valle (1698 - 1768)
- Cupid and Psyche
- Rome, Italy
- c. 1730
- S22
- Landing
- Bookmarkable URLThis sculpture depicts Cupid, god of love, and the beautiful mortal woman Psyche. Although adult lovers in the original tale, in art they are often depicted as children. The group is by Filippo della Valle who enjoyed a successful career in Rome, but was somewhat forgotten after his death.
Della Valle’s elegant style has much in common with that of French eighteenth-century sculptors. The group was for a long time attributed to a French sculptor Claude-Augustin Cayot, mainly on the basis of a false signature ‘Cayot 1706’ inscribed on the base. There is a discrepancy between the carved date and the more advanced, almost Rococo style of the sculpture. Research revealed that the group is a documented work of Della Valle. Cayot’s signature was applied later, probably by a dealer. The latter may have had the 4th Marquess of Hertford in mind as a buyer since Lord Hertford already owned a statue by Cayot.
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- Studio of François Boucher (1703 - 1770)
- La marchande des modes (The Modiste)
- probably c. 1746
- P390
- Landing
- Bookmarkable URLA replica of the picture commissioned in 1745 and delivered in 1746 to Crown Princess Louisa Ulrika of Sweden, now in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. The subject was originally intended to illustrate Morning in an uncompleted series of the Times of the Day, and is typical of the elegant, contemporary interior scenes painted by Boucher between 1739 and 1746. The Wallace Collection’s picture was probably painted c.1746, before the prime version left the artist’s studio. Although of a good quality, it lacks the vivacity of the original, and was described as ‘after Boucher’ in the sale catalogue of its first owner, Salomon Pierre de Prousteau, in 1769. It served as a model for an engraving by René Gaillard in 1755 ('La marchande des modes') and was probably painted specifically as a model for the engraver.