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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scoutshouse, post: 440927, member: 267&quot;]Cupid and Psyche are displayed in three museums - I don&#039;t know if they were all produced in different scales by the same artist. As noted, the one I&#039;m showing was flipped - possibly not to infringe on the original? IDK...</p><p><br /></p><p>This piece below started out as a small clay model/maquette by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen and later copied in monumental scale by Lucas Akorn c. 1880.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://arkivet.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/articles/dying-lion-the-lucerne-lion" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://arkivet.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/articles/dying-lion-the-lucerne-lion" rel="nofollow"><font size="4"><b>Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion)</b></font></a></p><p><font size="4">is a much more exhaustive source than I was able to dig up in 2012!</font></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://fotoarkivet.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/imgs/83/53/36673/collection/D_ende_l_ve_Schweizerl_ven_relief.jpg?36673" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://fotoarkivet.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/imgs/f1/5a/28546/collection/Franz_Hegi_Schweizerl_ven.jpg?28546" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://fotoarkivet.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/imgs/eb/50/9132/large/E2261.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Then this tiny one came into my hands<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> Hand carved in a form of steatite called lardstone or speck for its resemblance to whale blubber or fat. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m a 2-dimensional person - The skill and technology involve in scaling these things really awesome to me! Not to mention the black art of identifying artist&#039;s marks in all categories! </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]155061[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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