The Cupid Seller (fresco)

The Cupid Seller is a 30 BC – 50 AD Roman genre fresco discovered in 1759 in Stabiae and now in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples. It shows a woman selling tiny cupids to a matrona. It was widely known and reproduced in the 18th and 19th centuries, proving a major influence on art such as Vien's The Cupid Seller.

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