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Love's Messenger

Artist: Marie Spartali Stillman (British, 1844–1927)

Date: 1885

Medium: Watercolor, tempera, and gold paint on paper

Collection: Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Description

Love's Messenger is an 1885 watercolor by Marie Spartali Stillman in which a dove has just carried a love letter to a woman standing in front of an open window. She wears a red rose, and has just put down her embroidery of a blind-folded Cupid.

Love's Messenger reflects the influence of both early Pre-Raphaelite painting and Italian Renaissance painting. The symbols portrayed in the painting, including the dove, rose, ivy, and the blind-folded Cupid "suggest constancy, fidelity, and loveliness in full bloom," but also suggest "beauty on the cusp of decay, sensuality, and the pain Cupid's arrows may inflict." The presence of Venus is shown by the rose and the dove, so that the "scene may offer a contrast between the beauty, love, and abundance of Venus and the sensuality and unpredictability of her son Cupid."

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He places me where he wants to place me. Incense. Worship. Illusion.

— Anaïs Nin, from “Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932”

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