Bukolischer kleiner Gott - Cupid with bow and arrow in a landscape, two versions by Carl Josef Alois Agricola, 1827

 

Oil on canvas, approximately 53x39 inches.

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Watercolor on paper, approximately 10.5x7.75 inches.

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Karl Joseph Aloys Agricola (18 October 1779, Bad Säckingen, Baden - 15 May 1852, Vienna), German artist, best remembered as a miniaturist. After a preliminary course of instruction in Karlsruhe, he went in 1798 to Vienna and enrolled at the Academy, where he studied under Heinrich Füger. He soon became known for his mythological pictures in oil and watercolor, and for his etchings and lithographs, but he was most noted for his miniature portraits. After a prosperous career he died in Vienna at the age of seventy-two.