Un Cupidon Brun qui blesse un Blanc
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Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web], p/no. 49/3
- Parallel for the pictura (mirrored, both Cupids are winged) and for the Italian and French motto: Alba ligustra cadunt, vaccinia nigra leguntur [87] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608)) [Compare]
References, across this site, to this page:
- Alba ligustra cadunt, vaccinia nigra leguntur [87] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
Iconclass
A dark cupid hits a white one with an arrow- colours, pigments, and paints [22C4]
- shrubs [25G31]
- low hill country [25H114]
- landscape with tower or castle [25I5]
- violent death by arrow(s) - EE - death not certain; wounded person [31EE23461]
- archer's weapons: arrow [45C15(ARROW)]
- archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)]
- quiver [45C23]
- picking fruit [47I4131]
- Grace, Charm; 'Gratia', 'Venusté' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [51D41(+4)]
- (personifications and symbolic representations of) Love; 'Amore (secondo Seneca)' (Ripa) (+ emblematical representation of concept) [56F2(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(GRATIA COLORE PRAEVALET)]
- Cupid shooting a dart [92D1521:22C4(BROWN)]
- suffering, misfortune of Cupid [92D16:22C4(WHITE)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(ARROW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(BOW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)]