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The Cupid Seller (French: La Marchande d’Amours) or The Accessories Seller (La Marchande à la toilette) is a 1763 oil on canvas painting by the French artist Joseph-Marie Vien. One of the earliest works of French neo-classicism , it is based on an ancient fresco of the same name from Stabiae and shows a woman selling tiny cupids .
The Cupid Seller is a 30 BC - 50 AD Roman genre fresco discovered in 1759 in Stabiae and now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples. It shows a woman selling tiny cupids to a matrona . It was widely known and reproduced in the 18th and 19th centuries, proving a major influence on art such as Vien's The Cupid Seller .
He was born in Montpellier.Protected by Comte de Caylus, he entered at an early age the studio of Natoire, and obtained the grand prix in 1745. He used his time at Rome in applying to the study of nature and the development of his own powers all that he gleaned from the masterpieces around him; but his tendencies were so foreign to the reigning taste that on his return to Paris he owed his ...
The Cupid Seller (fresco) Cupid Untying the Zone of Venus; D. Danaë (Titian paintings) The Death of Adonis (Rubens) Diana and Cupid; Diana and Endymion (Langlois)
Another work of great importance is the "Seller of cupids", found in 1759, also dating to the first century BC, which represents a woman in the act of selling a cupid to a girl: this fresco was already famous across Europe in the 18th century, influencing neoclassical taste and was copied on porcelain, prints, lithographs and paintings.
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