The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 413
time, which causes the colours in fresco tofade, may have taken from this picture a great portionof its vigour, we may reasonably presume it was nevermuch esteemed for its colouring. In hazarding thisremark it is far from our intention to depreciate one ofthe chef dceuvres of the art: on the… … i CUPID BENDING HIS BOW. ANTIQUE STATUE. Love, naked and on foot, is employed in bending hisbow. The effort he makes compels him to extend histhighs, and to incline forward the principal part of hisbody. There exist several antique copies of this figure,the original of which, in the opinion of some…
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