This work is a typical example of neo-classical decorative works fashionable at the end of the 18th century in western europe. It shows a woman selling cupids kept in a cage to another, a design derive from a fresco in stabia near pompei. This painting was particularly popular and several versions of it were produced by the same sauvage and contemporary painters. Date: 1799. Medium: oil on marble. Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum. Piat Joseph Sauvage - La Marchande d'Amours 1799
