Artwork overview
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Medium
bronze
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall without base: 38.6 x 25.1 x 24.4 cm (15 3/16 x 9 7/8 x 9 5/8 in.)
height with base: 50.2 cm (19 3/4 in.) -
Accession Number
1942.9.114
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 11 November 1912 by Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[1] inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] Purchase date according to Widener card file in NGA curatorial records.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1942
Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 8, as Cupid by Donatello.
1943
Swarzenski, Georg. "Some Aspects of Italian Quattrocento Sculpture in the National Gallery." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th series, 24 (November 1943): 287 fig. 2, 288, as by Donatello.
1944
Duveen Brothers, Inc. Duveen Sculpture in Public Collections of America: A Catalog Raisonné with illustrations of Italian Renaissance Sculptures by the Great Masters which have passed through the House of Duveen. New York, 1944: fig. 14, as Laughing Cupid, by Donatello.
1948
Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 115, repro., as Cupid by Donatello.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 153, as by Donatello.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 136, repro., as by Donatello.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 83, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q63809223