The connection between Apollo and Cupid can be found in Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' (1. 452–567), in which is described how Apollo chaffs Cupid for toying with a man's weapon suited to a man, whereupon Cupid wounds him with an arrow with a golden dart; simultaneously, however, Eros had shot a leaden arrow into Daphne, causing her to be repulsed by Apollo. Thus this Cupid here is slightly offended and planning his revenge, looking up at Apollo trying to grab a bow the god held in his left hand. A possible reason for the detachment of Cupid and Apollo was that the locus of interest for the seventeenth century audience was not found in these narrative details, however, but rather in the aesthetic proposed by the figure of Apollo, and Cupid on itself. Few surviving versions retain the bow and the Cupid together with Apollo, and yet the nude figure standing alone – counter posed only by the tree trunk presents a balanced and powerful composition.