La Marchande d’Amours
E446633
La Marchande d’Amours is the original French title of the 18th-century painting commonly known in English as The Seller of Cupids, depicting a vendor offering small Cupid figures in a playful mythological scene.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| La Marchande d’Amours canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4483556 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: La Marchande d’Amours Context triple: [The Seller of Cupids, titleInOriginalLanguage, La Marchande d’Amours]
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A.
Plaisir d’amour
"Plaisir d’amour" is a classic 18th-century French love song, widely known through numerous interpretations including a popular rendition by Nana Mouskouri.
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B.
Le Ton beau de Marot
Le Ton beau de Marot is a book by Douglas Hofstadter that explores translation, language, and meaning through playful, deeply reflective analyses and reworkings of a single French poem.
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C.
Madeleine in the Bois d’Amour
Madeleine in the Bois d’Amour is a Post-Impressionist painting by Émile Bernard that depicts a contemplative female figure in a wooded landscape, reflecting the artist’s Symbolist and Cloisonnist style.
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D.
Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut is an Italian opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini, based on Abbé Prévost’s novel about the tragic love affair between the young chevalier Des Grieux and the alluring Manon.
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E.
The Lover’s Confession
The Lover’s Confession is a Middle English narrative poem by John Gower that explores love and morality through a series of tales framed as a lover’s dialogue with the personified figure of Genius.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: La Marchande d’Amours Target entity description: La Marchande d’Amours is the original French title of the 18th-century painting commonly known in English as The Seller of Cupids, depicting a vendor offering small Cupid figures in a playful mythological scene.
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A.
Plaisir d’amour
"Plaisir d’amour" is a classic 18th-century French love song, widely known through numerous interpretations including a popular rendition by Nana Mouskouri.
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B.
Le Ton beau de Marot
Le Ton beau de Marot is a book by Douglas Hofstadter that explores translation, language, and meaning through playful, deeply reflective analyses and reworkings of a single French poem.
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C.
Madeleine in the Bois d’Amour
Madeleine in the Bois d’Amour is a Post-Impressionist painting by Émile Bernard that depicts a contemplative female figure in a wooded landscape, reflecting the artist’s Symbolist and Cloisonnist style.
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D.
Manon Lescaut
Manon Lescaut is an Italian opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini, based on Abbé Prévost’s novel about the tragic love affair between the young chevalier Des Grieux and the alluring Manon.
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E.
The Lover’s Confession
The Lover’s Confession is a Middle English narrative poem by John Gower that explores love and morality through a series of tales framed as a lover’s dialogue with the personified figure of Genius.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Rococo painting
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mythological painting ⓘ painting ⓘ |
| artHistoricalContext | French 18th-century painting ⓘ |
| artworkType | easel painting ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| depicts |
Cupid figures
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a vendor selling Cupids ⓘ allegory of love ⓘ playful mythological scene ⓘ |
| genre | mythological scene ⓘ |
| hasSubject |
Cupid
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love ⓘ mythology ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
commerce of love
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eroticism ⓘ mythological allegory ⓘ playfulness ⓘ |
| iconography | Cupid as merchandise ⓘ |
| movement | Rococo ⓘ |
| narrativeSetting | mythological marketplace ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| portrays |
female vendor
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putti ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | sale of Cupids ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
| titleInEnglish | The Seller of Cupids ⓘ |
| titleInOriginalLanguage | La Marchande d’Amours ⓘ |
| visualTone |
light-hearted
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playful ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: La Marchande d’Amours Description of subject: La Marchande d’Amours is the original French title of the 18th-century painting commonly known in English as The Seller of Cupids, depicting a vendor offering small Cupid figures in a playful mythological scene.
Referenced by (2)
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