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[Cupid on Earth]

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American Photographer · 1822–1893

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Date: about 1872
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: American
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Relief sculpture by Bertel Thorvaldsen of a winged child walking alongside a lion. The child has one hand in the lion's mane and is holding an arrow with the other. The lion is leaning forward to lick the child's foot.

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