A centaur with Cupid. Stipple engraving by J. Condé, 1789.

Date:
1789
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11490i
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A centaur with Cupid. Stipple engraving by J. Condé, 1789. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The centaur holds in his hands a dead hare and a club, while Cupid rides on his back. Apparently a fanciful variation on the statue of the centaur with a Cupid formerly in Villa Borghese, Rome, latterly in the Louvre (Haskell and Penny loc. cit.)

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1789

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1 print : engraving

Lettering

A centaur. Engraved for Bell's new pantheon by J. Condé.

References note

F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique. The lure of classical sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London 1981, pp. 179-180 (on the statue)

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Wellcome Collection 11490i

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