Un Cupidon qui perce un vieux Renard & en prend un autre aux lacs
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Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web], p/no. 48/6
- Parallel for the pictura (mirrored, background more detailed) and for some mottoes (Latin, Italian, French) in: Et annosa capitur vulpes [118] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608)) [Compare]
References, across this site, to this page:
- Et annosa capitur vulpes [118] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
Iconclass
A cupid shooting at a fox with bow and arrow; another fox chained to a tree-stump- beasts of prey, predatory animals: fox (+ very old animal) [25F23(FOX)(+24)]
- beasts of prey, predatory animals: fox (+ animal(s) being hit, shot, caught) [25F23(FOX)(+621)]
- low hill country [25H114]
- running [31A27112]
- sports, games ~ animals (+ snare) [43C1(+4141)]
- fox hunting [43C111231]
- hunters hunting (N.B.: In 1988-1990 this notation denoted the concept of 43C11421 'hunters resting during the hunt') [43C1142]
- archer's weapons: arrow (+ handling of weapons) [45C15(ARROW)(+63)]
- archer's weapons: bow (+ handling of weapons) [45C15(BOW)(+63)]
- quiver [45C23]
- Authority, Power; 'Dominio', 'Giurisdittione' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [53C11(+4)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(ET ANNOSA CAPITUR VULPES)]
- 'Omnia vincit Amor', Love the conqueror, Love triumphant [92D1511]
- Cupid shooting a dart [92D1521]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(ARROW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(BOW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)]