Ring with Cupid Chasing a Butterfly
This ring uses naturally occurring color variations in a slice of agate to create a miniature relief of Cupid chasing a butterfly, which represents the human soul. Other neoclassical artists also represented this theme, perhaps most famously the marble by Antoine-Denis Chaudet...
Artifact
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id
28959
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| contentType |
contentType
object
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| stage |
stage
normalized
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| provenance |
provenance
Dikran Kelekian, Paris and New York; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
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| rightsUri |
rightsUri
CC0
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| language |
language
en
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| pageCount |
pageCount
1
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| source |
source
import
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Source image fields (5)
| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_42.126_Fnt_DD_T16.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_42.126_Fnt_DD_T16.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_42.126_Fnt_DD_T16.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.126 |
Terms
Medium
agate, gold