# Apollo and Cupid

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duquesnoy-franois-r67d79115372a5f/apollo-and-cupid-rf1ee1762fcf2b7>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [DUQUESNOY, François](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duquesnoy-franois-r67d79115372a5f>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Bronze, light brown lacquer patina, height 66 cm

## Commentary

The statue has a companion-piece, Mercury. Both statues were conceived as dialogue between a god and Cupid. \(Originally a figure of Cupid also set at the feet of Mercury.\)

## Related artworks

- [Bacchanalia of Putti](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duquesnoy-franois-r67d79115372a5f/bacchanalia-of-putti-re09e22a4b75c87>)
- [Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duquesnoy-franois-r67d79115372a5f/cardinal-maurizio-of-savoy-r23c8c280332082>)
- [Cardinal Maurizio of Savoy](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duquesnoy-franois-r67d79115372a5f/cardinal-maurizio-of-savoy-rddf4612b32cfff>)
- [Epitaph of Adriaen Vryburch](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duquesnoy-franois-r67d79115372a5f/epitaph-of-adriaen-vryburch-r56468b7d1cad49>)
- [Epitaph of Ferdinand van den Eynde](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duquesnoy-franois-r67d79115372a5f/epitaph-of-ferdinand-van-den-eynde-r08e07867deb4e1>)
- [Epitaph of Ferdinand van den Eynde](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duquesnoy-franois-r67d79115372a5f/epitaph-of-ferdinand-van-den-eynde-r41bdabe83f789d>)
- [Mercury](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duquesnoy-franois-r67d79115372a5f/mercury-rc7ee3a7a293663>)
- [Rondanini Faun](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duquesnoy-franois-r67d79115372a5f/rondanini-faun-rb823f219750422>)
- [Sleeping Silenus](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duquesnoy-franois-r67d79115372a5f/sleeping-silenus-rb27c44010df09a>)
- [St Andrew](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duquesnoy-franois-r67d79115372a5f/st-andrew-r75c8bcc5236a06>)
- [St Susanna \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duquesnoy-franois-r67d79115372a5f/st-susanna-detail-r9ba3c4047ce471>)
- [St Susanna](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/duquesnoy-franois-r67d79115372a5f/st-susanna-r7ac1b2fae18fe9>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)