Description: Open-back sofa of wood painted black and partially gilded, the back painted with three
figures in medallions inscribed “Amor,” “Amans,” and “Amata” (Love, the Loving or Lover, the Beloved), upholstered with contemporary
green cut velvet.
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
These designs were made for the decorative ovals on the sofa DGR designed for himself around 1863. The sofa, which was part of the furniture in DGR's Chelsea house, passed to the possession of Charles Fairfax Murray and thence to the Fitzwilliam Museum, where it is presently located.
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