# Cupid Presenting a Rose to a Butterfly [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CHAUDET, Antoine-Denis]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Marble, height 77 cm ## Commentary Cupid Presenting a Rose to a Butterfly c. 1802 Marble, height 77 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Chaudet's classicism is essentially decorative and delicate. It is no accident that the Cupid should be one of his best known sculptures, and its base is no less typical of his style, even if its execution is not entirely his, with its playful, graceful frieze showing on one side amoretti who have fired their arrows at a beehive and are alarmed at the result. The sculpture was finished by Pierre Cartellier and presented at the Salon of 1817. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 4 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/17\_cent/gasparini\_cupid.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Francesco Gasparini: The Meddlesome Cupid, aria</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [Belisarius and his Guide]() - [Cupid Presenting a Rose to a Butterfly]() - [The Child Oedipus Revived by the Shepherd Phorbas]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()