Lot 237 - E-Live Auction 48

Neoclassical intaglio of Psyche and Amor playing the double-flute, bearing a spurious signature SEMIEL in greek characters. This is a ... Read more
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Neoclassical intaglio of Psyche and Amor playing the double-flute, bearing a spurious signature SEMIEL in greek characters. This is a celebrated depiction, the most famous example of which was in Goethe’s collection, which is copied from a drawing by Angelika Kauffmann from 1790. See: Barbara Tasser, “Eine Amor und Psyche-Gemme und ein nie geführter Urheberrechtsstreit », in Römische historische Mitteilungen, vol. 44 (2002), pp. 477-491; Christiane Holm, Amor und Psyche. Die Erfindung eines Mythos in Kunst, Wissenschaft und Alltagskultur (1765-1840), Munich and Berlin 2006, pp. 147-150.
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