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Cupid
Edmé Bouchardon1744
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Cupid
- Creator: Edme Bouchardon
- Date Created: 1744
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 74.3 × 35.56 × 31.75 cm (29 1/4 × 14 × 12 1/2 in.) gross weight: 75 lb. (34.02 kg)
- Provenance: Possibly Fermier-général Bouret, Paris, before 1757.[1] Sir Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th marquess of Hertford [1800-1870], London and Paris, by 1865;[2] by inheritance to his illegitimate son, Sir Richard Wallace [1818-1890], London and Paris; by inheritance to his wife, Julie-Amélie-Charlotte Castelnau, Lady Wallace [1819-1897], Paris and London; by inheritance to her adviser and secretary, Sir John Murray Scott [1847-1912], London and Paris; by inheritance to his friend, Victoria Sackville-West, Lady Sackville [1864-1936], Paris; sold 1913 to (Jacques Seligmann et Cie, Paris and New York); sold 1914 to Ivor Churchill Guest, 2nd baron and 1st viscount Wimborne [1873-1939], Canford Manor, Wimborne; (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 6-8 March 1923, 2nd day, no. 256); Matthews.[3] Mortimer L. Schiff [1877-1931], New York; (his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22-23 June 1938, 1st day, no. 34); (Jacques Seligmann et Cie, Paris and New York); sold 11 May 1950 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1952 to NGA. [1] See entry by Charles Avery in Ulrich Middeldorf, _Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection_, London, 1976:102-104. [2] Lord Hertford lent the sculpture to the Musée Retrospectif, held in Paris in 1865. See F.J.B. Watson, "Lord Hertford and the Musée Retrospectif of 1865," _Apollo_ 81 (June 1965): 436, fig. 2. [3] A copy of the 1923 sale catalogue in the library of the Getty Research Institute is annotated with the buyer's name "Matthews" (copy in NGA curatorial files).
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: marble
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