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Lot 327 PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK
AN ITALIAN MARBLE FIGURAL GROUP ENTITLED 'THE PUNISHMENT OF CUPID', ON PEDESTAL
BY LUIGI GALLANDT, ROME, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Closed21 October 2008
Price Realised
USD 40,000
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Specialist note
Also known as Cupid Restrained, the present subject was popularized by numerous artists in the 19th century. While this group was considered to be an 'original subject' or interpretation by the artist, other compositions more frequently show Venus disarming Cupid by depriving him of his quiver or Minerva clipping the putto's wings.
Though little is known about Luigi Gallandt and his oeuvre, it is interesting to note that a marble of the same subject, possibly the present marble, was sold for $710 in a 1905 American Art Association auction of the J.W. Kauffman collection of fine art and sculpture.
Though little is known about Luigi Gallandt and his oeuvre, it is interesting to note that a marble of the same subject, possibly the present marble, was sold for $710 in a 1905 American Art Association auction of the J.W. Kauffman collection of fine art and sculpture.