id:			122229
accession number:	1942.54.2
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.54.2
updated:		2022-09-22 09:33:43.829000

Faithful Love, 1800s. After Augustin Pajou (French, 1730–1809). Marble; without base: 26 x 10.9 x 10 cm (10 1/4 x 4 5/16 x 3 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey 1942.54.2

title:				Faithful Love
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creation date:			1800s
creation date earliest:		1800
creation date latest:		1899
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creditline:			Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	marble
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Augustin Pajou (French, 1730–1809)  - artist

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measurements: without base: 26 x 10.9 x 10 cm (10 1/4 x 4 5/16 x 3 15/16 in.)
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	inscription:	signature behind stump with roses: Pajou f(ecit) 1787.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, The Eighteenth Century, April 26-May 31, 1950, p. 20, no.108.

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PROVENANCE

	Baron Maurice de Rothschild, Paris;
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	[Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc, NY, 1917];
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	Grace Rainey Rogers, New York.
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wall description: 
These statuettes represent the opposing spectrums of love -- fickle and faithful -- both portrayed by Cupid.  Fickle Love absent-mindedly plays with a butterfly, a symbol of the fleeting moment.  Conversely, Faithful Love is accompanied by a dog, the ultimate loyal companion.  These works were originally believed to be by the hand of Augustin Pajou, because the works are signed and he made nearly identical sculptures. However, owing to the slightly clumsy execution and the awkward scale of the signatures, the museum now believes the statuettes to have been created by another artist after Pajou's design.
-- David Silvernail (April 2012)
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