Cupid on a Swan
Sculptor, Bolognese, 1494 - 1553
Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze//Light brown patina
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (oval): 7.3 x 6.2 cm (2 7/8 x 2 7/16 in.) gross weight: 83 gr
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Accession
1957.14.518
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; his estate; purchased 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 1945 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1957 to NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1931
Ricci, Seymour de. The Gustave Dreyfus Collection. Reliefs and Plaquettes. Oxford, 1931. vol.II, 384.
1965
Pope-Hennessy, John W. Renaissance Bronzes from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Reliefs, Plaquettes, Statuettes, Utensils and Mortars. London, 1965: no. 402.
2014
Warren, Jeremy. Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Oxford, 2014: 3:1090.
Wikidata ID
Q63814999