The Graces with Cupid's Arrow, and Cupid with the Lyre

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As the title shows, the sculpture is about Jupiter’s beautiful daughters, the Graces, who act as maidservants to Venus, the goddess of love. This explains the presence of the little Cupid, who is playing the lyre at their feet: Cupid is Venus’s son. The Graces are examining one of Cupid’s arrows: the origin, nature and purpose of love could be the object of the beautiful trio’s considerations. Executed by Georg Christian Freund under the supervision of H.W. Bissen after the original plaster model 1842, inv.no. A32 The small statue of the Cupid playing the Lyre is also a separate work by Thorvaldsen. Housed at The Statens Museum for Kunst, this sculpture can be downloaded here.

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Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsens Museum opened on 18 September 1848 and was the first public museum building in Denmark. The characteristic museum building was built to exhibit the extensive life’s work of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) and today still looks more or less as it did when it opened over 150 years ago. Thorvaldsens Museum also contains Thorvaldsen's drawings and sketches for sculptures and reliefs. In addition Thorvaldsen was a passionate collector, so the museum also exhibits his extensive collections of paintings from his own time and collections of artworks and objects from Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquity. The museum also shows changing exhibitions that go into greater depth with aspects of the permanent collections, including contemporary art.

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