Cupid Holding a Butterfly to Hurt it with an Arrow. Only known from Mori, op. cit..
Later reworked as Cupid Triumphant, A22.

Primary sources

• Letter dated 30.1.1807 from Thorvaldsen to Schubart (will be starting modelling Cupid).
• Letter dated 4.7.1807 from C.F. Høyer to Abildgaard (Thorvaldsen has modelled “Cupid”).
• Thiele II, p. 135.
• Ferdinando Mori: Le statue e li bassirelievi inventati e scolpiti in marmo dal cavaliere Alberto Thorwaldsen scultore danese, Rome 1811, pl. 28.
• Thiele II, p. 135.
• A version carved in marble 1811.

Other references

• Related Article: Lost Works by Thorvaldsen

Last updated 16.05.2019