The Temptation of Eros
Angelica Kauffmann
1750–75
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Framed: 18 7/8 x 23 11/16 x 2 7/8 in. (48 x 60.2 x 7.3 cm)
Classification
Painting
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of James De Lancey Verplanck and John Bayard Rodgers Verplanck, 1939
Accession Number
39.184.18
Tags
WomenEros
About the Artist
Angelica Kauffmann · 1741–1807
Swiss painter and etcher, and one of the few women artists of the time working in the Neo-Classical style to specialize in both portraits and subject pictures. Her famous sitters include the family of George III in Britain, Grand-Duke Paul and Prince Nikolay Yusupov in Russia, Stanislav II Poniatowski and Stanislav Kostka Potocki in Poland, Queen Caroline of Naples and Emperor Joseph II of Austria...