Auction: European Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2481Location: BostonDate / Time: October 24, 2009 11:00AM
Description:
European School, late 19th/early 20th Century Allegory of Tortures of Love, watercolor, pencil and gouache on paper, depicting Cupid standing on flames and entwined by a snake, the peering eyes, laughing mouths, wounded doves, and endangered hearts surround him in the background, laid down, with backing painted with border and mottoed banner below image "Les Soupcon cruels le d'echirent," sight size 8 x 5 1/2, frame size 11 1/4 x 8 3/8 in.
Estimate $150-200