After Antoine-Denis Chaudet (French, 1763-1810), bronze figure of Cupid playing with a butterfly, depicted kneeling to offer a rose to a butterfly, on oval marble base, signed, height 57.5 cm width 62 cm, labels: Chaudet exhibited a plaster model of his Cupid at the Paris salon of 1802. The sculptor died in 1810, and in 1817, Pierre Cartellier completed the life-size marble statue, from the original model on display at the Louvre