“I like you together and I think of my self as cupid since I did put you two together.”

“Behind the couples, a cupid brings new arrivals, while under the trees at right, other couples sing to the accompaniment of a recorder or oboe.”

“A guest at a ball, in conversation, repeats the pointing gesture of the cupid in the painting behind her.”

“The bright sunlight poured down on the myriad of rocailles, garlands, leaves, amphorae, birds and cupids.”

“He did cute tinted drawings of pussycats, cupids, flowers and ladies' boots, with texts in a kind of ornamental handwriting.”

“Among the various bits and pieces we see in this corner are plaster casts of the heads and tiny wings of two putti or cupids.”