Cupid and Ganymede or Venus Finds Cupid Playing Dice with Ganymede is a 1782 painting by Angelica Kauffman, one of four works commissioned from her by George Bowles[1] It is now in a private collection. It is based on Matthew Pryor's poetic reworking of an ancient myth about how Ganymede beat Cupid at dice, with the stakes being Cupid's arrows, an attribute of his divine power, and shows Cupid being chastised by his mother Venus.
The work and Kauffman's Jupiter and Callisto and Orpheus and Eurydice were engraved by Thomas Burke in 1784.[2] The artist also painted Ganymede and the Eagle (now in the vorarlberg Museum) in 1793.[3]
^"Angelica Kauffman, Phryne seducing the philosopher Zenokrates".
^(in German)Tuchscherer, Thilo. Verrückt nach Angelika: Porzellan und Anderes Kunsthandwerk nach Angelika Kauffmann: : Hetjens-Museum, Deutsches Keramikmuseum, Düsseldorf, 15. November 1998 to 24. Januar 1999; Haus der Kunst, München, 5. Februar bis 18. April 1999; Rätisches Museum, Chur, 7. Mai bis 11. July 1999 : : Katalog. — Stuttgart: Dr. Cantz'sche Druckerei, 1998. - P. 14, 54, 57. - 132 p.
^(in German) "Catalogue entry".
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