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Statuette with Cupid Reaching for Venus
This statue depicts Venus as she is sitting on stone, with a crown of flowers on her head and her clothing loosely draped across her waist. She is gazing at the face of Cupid with her left hand around his side, and the other hand holding a cup. Cupid is leaping from a lower stone into the lap of Venus, with his arms reaching around her. At their feet we can see Cupid's arrows along side a pitcher and a garland of flowers.
Provenance
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Edmond F. Bonaventure [dealer], New York, by 1911 [mode of acquisition unknown] (?); purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911 (?); by bequest to Walters Art Musuem, 1931.
Geographies
France, Sèvres (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 12 3/8 in. (31.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1911
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.975