Cupid awakened by Two Nymphs, 'Dormio innocuus' (My sleep is harmless, you wake me at your peril)
after Angelica Kauffman RA (Chur 1741 – Rome 1807)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1800
Materials
Oil on canvas (circular)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 609127
Summary
Oil painting on canvas (circular), Cupid awakened by Two Nymphs, 'Dormio innocuus' (My sleep is harmless, you wake me at your peril) , after Angelica Kauffman RA (Chur 1741 – Rome 1807), circa 1800. Two classical nymphs stand to the right, trying to wake up the sleeping Cupid with a stick. In landscape setting. Set in ceiling roundel.
Provenance
Attingham collection; 1913 Inventory p.75; bequeathed to the National Trust with the estate, house and contents of Attingham by Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick (1877-1947) on 15th May 1953.
Makers and roles
after Angelica Kauffman RA (Chur 1741 – Rome 1807), artist