Visit “Caravaggio's Cupid” at The Wallace Collection

This exhibition is proudly sponsored by Sotheby’s and is free and open to the public

Through a special loan from the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, Caravaggio’s celebrated “Amor Vincit Omnia” or “Victorious Cupid” goes on view to the public for the first time in the UK. The painting’s audacious figure — a youthful, nude cupid who boldly faces the viewer with a knowing gaze — stands with his outstretched eagle wings framing his body, one gently brushing against his thigh. At The Wallace Collection, the exhibition draws inspiration from the 17th-century Roman palazzo of Vincenzo Giustiniani, who commissioned the work, bringing the painting together with two ancient Roman sculptures as it was originally shown. The display invites visitors to engage in the baroque “paragone,” the intellectual debate between painting and sculpture that so captivated Giustiniani’s circle.

^{Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), “Victorious Cupid,” 1601/02, Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Photograph by Google; Public Domain Mark 1.0}