# The Birth of Cupid [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LE SUEUR, Eustache]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 182 x 125 cm ## Commentary The picture shows the central compartment of the ceiling decoration of the Cabinet de l'Amour in the Hôtel Lambert \(the house of president Nicolas Lambert de Thorigny\) in Paris. The French noble houses followed the three-room principle of antechamber, bedchamber and "cabinet". This latter was the most intimate, but not necessarily the smallest room, usually decorated in a deliberate, original way. The decorative program was conceived to be highly meaningful. At the Hôtel Lambert Le Sueur was successively commissioned to decorate three rooms, all in the Carracci style, all with eloquent themes: a Cabinet de l'Amour \(1645-47\), a Chambre de Muses \(1652-54\) and a hidden bathroom with a highly refined ceiling \(1652-55\). ## Related artworks - [A Gathering of Friends]() - [Allegory of Poetry]() - [Caligula Depositing the Ashes of his Mother and Brother in the Tomb of his Ancestors]() - [Christ Healing the Blind Man]() - [Death of Raymond Diocrès]() - [Death of St Bruno]() - [Portrait of a Young Man]() - [Presentation of the Virgin]() - [Raymond Diocrès Announcing his Damnation after his Death]() - [Saint Bruno Is Taken to Heaven]() - [St Bruno Appearing to Comte Roger]() - [St Bruno at Prayer]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()