L'Amour Menetrier - Cupid the Fiddler – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic print captures L'Amour Menetrier - Cupid the Fiddler in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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L'Amour Menetrier - Cupid the Fiddler
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Cupid cast as a village fiddler gives this picture its character. The French title, *L'Amour Menétrier*, or "Cupid the Fiddler," shows the love god as a rustic musician rather than the usual archer. The image is a halftone reproduction of a painting by Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson, made by breaking the image into tiny dots so it could be printed alongside text. It appeared in the April 1908 issue of *Scribner's Magazine*, a New York monthly known for pairing fiction and essays with illustrations, on page 509. The record comes from a caption card, so some details remain unconfirmed.
| Created / published | 1908 April. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print: halftone. |
| Notes | Painting by Sarah Paxton Ball Dodson. Illus. in: Scribner's Magazine, April 1908, v. XLII, p. 509. Ref. copy may be in SSF (Gr) - MUSIC. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,437 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-152379 |
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