丘比特作为信使，与卡杜科斯 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	丘比特作为信使，与卡杜科斯
品名（英）	Cupid as a Messenger, with Caduceus
入馆年号	1907年，07.225.255
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	French Painter【法国人】
创作年份	公元 1725 - 公元 1735
创作地区
分类	装饰性绘画（Paintings-Decorative）
尺寸	整体 (oval): 34 1/4 × 38 3/4 英寸 (87 × 98.4 厘米)
介绍（中）	这幅椭圆形的画布描绘了丘比特在蓝天和白色蓬松的云彩下覆盖着粉红色的飞行帷幔，同时拿着他父亲水星的象征caduceus和他母亲维纳斯的象征玫瑰。丘比特可以通过底部错视画建筑中的箭、弓和燃烧的火炬交叉箭袋来识别，该建筑进一步装饰有维特鲁威卷轴或波浪图案。幻觉的花环被画在建筑元素的边缘和蓝天上。这幅画可能是床顶篷或床壁龛内部的一部分，只有床上的居住者才能看到。具有奇特形式和名称的床是在十八世纪的法国引入的，这些床悬挂着悬挂在测试仪或顶篷或床壁龛框架上的华丽帷幔。这幅画是位于巴黎玛德琳广场的成功装饰企业Maison Leys的木制品，镶板和座椅家具模型收藏的一部分。自1885年以来，该业务由乔治·霍恩切尔（Georges Hoentschel）指导，他于1903年在巴黎弗兰德林大道（Boulevard Flandrin）的博物馆式展览中安装了该系列。三年后，Hoentschel将藏品卖给了J. Pierpont Morgan，后者于1907年将画布与装饰师的其余十七和十八世纪物品一起赠送给了大都会艺术博物馆。
介绍（英）	This elliptical-shaped canvas depicts Cupid covered in pink flying drapery against a blue sky with white fluffy clouds, while holding a caduceus, the symbol of his father Mercury, and a rose, the symbol of his mother Venus. Cupid is identifiable by the crossed quiver of arrows, bow, and flaming torch in the trompe l’oeil architecture at the bottom which is further decorated with Vitruvian scroll or wave motifs. Illusionistic garlands of flowers are painted over the edge of the architectural elements and against the blue sky. This painting may have been part of the interior of a bed canopy or bed alcove which would have only been visible by the occupants of the bed. Beds with fanciful forms and names were introduced in eighteenth-century France which were hung with rich draperies suspended from the tester or canopy or framing the bed alcove. This painting was part of the model collection of woodwork, paneling and seat furniture of Maison Leys, a successful decorating business, located at the Place de la Madeleine in Paris. Since 1885 the business was directed by Georges Hoentschel who installed the collection in 1903 in a museum-like display at Boulevard Flandrin, Paris. Three years later, Hoentschel sold the collection to J. Pierpont Morgan who gave the canvas with the rest of the decorator’s seventeenth and eighteenth century objects to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1907.