Love Locked Out

Love Locked Out is an oil painting by Anna Lea Merritt first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1890 and which became the first painting by a woman artist acquired for the British national collection through the Chantrey Bequest.

The painting of Cupid standing before a locked door was well received when it was shown. Merritt's first painting of a nude model, Eve Overcome with Remorse, had met with unfavourable reviews after winning a medal at the Royal Academy in 1885. But this painting, which was created as a memorial to her husband, was received favourably, though it again featured a nude model - and this time the model was male, a controversial subject for women artists at that time. Merritt escaped censure by choosing a child to portray Cupid, rather than an adult, such as her Eve had been.

As a notable work by an American painter, Love Locked Out was included in the 1905 book Women Pai…

摘自英文维基百科「Love Locked Out」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。