Woman in profile with Cupid and a red rose – Antique Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Few images capture their era like this historic image of Woman in profile with Cupid and a red rose. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Woman in profile with Cupid and a red rose
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A Cupid and a red rose set this picture apart from the many sentimental images that share the Valentine's Day theme. The woman is shown in profile, a composition favored by artists who wanted to suggest calm dignity and a sense of distance, as if the romance were something she contemplated rather than performed. Cupid, the winged Roman god of desire, has long been paired with the rose, which by the Victorian era had become a standard emblem of love and courtship. Notice how the red bloom draws the eye and anchors the scene, linking the classical myth to the more personal sentiment of the mid-19th century.
| Original scan | 523 × 818 px |
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| Reference | Img126 |
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