# Poor Cupid

- By: Edmonia Lewis (born Greenbush (now Rensselaer), NY 1844-died London, England 1907)
- Date: modeled ca. 1872, carved 1876
- Medium: marble
- Classification: Sculpture
- Dimensions: 27 x 13 3/4 x 12 1/4 in. (68.6 x 34.9 x 31.1 cm.)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alfred T. Morris, Sr.
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=14631)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/dc693e97a374acdae7903af3fb76d3f4.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Edmonia Lewis occasionally carved sculptures of mythical scenes, which were very popular with American tourists visiting Rome. Poor Cupid, or Love Ensnared, depicts the cherub with his hand caught in a trap as he reaches down for a rose. Frivolous sculptures like this appealed to the Victorian sentimentality of affluent Americans traveling around Europe.