Title: Cupid Instructed by Mercury
Object type: Print
Date: 18th century
Artist:  Pierre François Basan 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1723–1797 Paris (?)
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet (trimmed): 10 9/16 × 15 5/8 in. (26.8 × 39.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Myra Carter Church Fund, 1957
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Birds, term: Female Nudes, term: Cupid, term: Mercury