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    "localId": "95187",
    "label": "Cupid disguised as Aeneas's son, presents gifts to Dido",
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    "id": "95187",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Cupid disguised as Aeneas's son, presents gifts to Dido",
    "description": "Achates, with spear in hand, presents Cupid, who is disguised as Aeneas's son, to Queen Dido. He offers her gifts to encourage her to love Aeneas who is seated at her side. Attendants are preparing a banquet that Dido is giving in honor of Aeneas and his companions.",
    "date": "1679",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.79.2",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 418.8 x 634.6 cm (164 7/8 x 249 13/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Belgium, 17th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1915.79.2"
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    "tec": "tapestry weave: silk and wool",
    "tombstone": "Cupid disguised as Aeneas's son, presents gifts to Dido, 1679. Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (Italian, 1610–1662), Michael Wauters (Flemish, 1679). Tapestry weave: silk and wool; overall: 418.8 x 634.6 cm (164 7/8 x 249 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss, in memory of Dr. Dudley P. Allen, 1915.79.2",
    "collection": "Textiles",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "signed lower left:  M. Wovters."
        }
    ],
    "formerAccessionNumbers": [
        "1915.80"
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "This tapestry is one from a series of eight that depicts the tragic love story of Dido and Aeneas. They were gifted to the museum for display in the armor court.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "W. M. M. \"Gothic Art.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 6, no. 4 (1919): 67-70.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 70",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136280"
        },
        {
            "citation": "BREMER-DAVID, CHARISSA. \"French &amp; Company and American Collections of Tapestries, 1907-1959.\" <em>Studies in the Decorative Arts</em> 11, no. 1 (2003): 38-68.",
            "url": "www.jstor.org/stable/40663064"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Catterson, Lynn. Florence, Berlin and Beyond : Late Nineteenth-Century Art Markets and Their Social Networks. <br>Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 159; Reproduced: p. 161, fig. 5.3"
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    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.79.2",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mrs. Francis F. Prentiss, in memory of Dr. Dudley P. Allen",
    "galleryDonorText": "Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Armor Court",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:05:27.688000",
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