Un Amour qui bat le Fusil sur la méche d’autre

Translations
Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web]
, p/no. 25/1 -
Parallel for the pictura (mirrored, more elements in the background) and the Latin, Dutch and French motto are (nearly)
the same in: Sine fomite frustra [80] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
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References, across this site, to this page:
- Sine fomite frustra [80] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
Iconclass
Two cupids using flint and steel to make a fire- trees
[25G3]

- flint and steel
[41B111]

- archer's weapons: arrow (+ destruction of weapons)
[45C15(ARROW)(+69)]

- quiver
[45C23]

- Worthlessness (+ emblematical representation of concept)
[54BB6(+4)]

- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of
concept)
[56F2(+4)]

- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT)
[86(SINE FOMITE FRUSTRA)]

- other non-aggressive activities of Cupid
[92D156]

- attributes of Cupid (with NAME)
[92D18(QUIVER)]

- companions of Cupid
[92D191]

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