L’Amour passant l’eau sur son Carquois
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Literature
Sources and parallels
- De la Feuille, Devises Et Emblemes 1697 [web], p/no. 19/15
- Parallel for the main pictorial element (Cupid rowing) and some mottoes (French, English, Dutch, though not exact) in: Via nulla est invia amore [47] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608)) [Compare]
References, across this site, to this page:
- Via nulla est invia amore [47] (in: Otto Vaenius, Amorum emblemata (1608))
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A cupid is crossing a stream on his quiver- sea (seascape) [25H23]
- archer's weapons: arrow [45C15(ARROW)]
- archer's weapons: bow [45C15(BOW)]
- quiver [45C23]
- improvised and unusual traffic on the water (+ under way, at sea (~ travelling)) [46C219(+63)]
- Means (+ emblematical representation of concept) [54B1(+4):56F2(+4)]
- proverbs, sayings, etc. (with TEXT) [86(AMOR PRAESTAT USUS)]
- Cupid using his weapons as a boat; 'Navis Amoris' [92D1525]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(ARROW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(BOW)]
- attributes of Cupid (with NAME) [92D18(QUIVER)]