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Seated Cupid: 'L'Amour Menaçant'

Étienne Maurice Falconet1757

Mauritshuis

Mauritshuis
Den Haag, Netherlands

  • Title: Seated Cupid: 'L'Amour Menaçant'
  • Creator: Falconet, Etienne-Maurice
  • Date Created: 1757
  • Provenance: Madame de Pompadour, Château de Bellevue, Paris; P.-L. Randon de Boisset, Paris, 1777; Duc de Rohan-Chabot, Paris, 1777-1787; Count Golovkine, Paris and/or St Petersburg, until 1796; Count Bezborodko, St Petersburg, 1796; his heirs, until 1870; A.P. Count Chouvalov, St Petersburg, 1870; Hermitage, St Petersburg, before 1929; Fritz Mannheimer, Amsterdam; Stichting Nederlands Kunstbezit; on loan to the Mauritshuis, 1953-1960; transferred, 1960; on long-term loan to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. no. RBK 1963-101), since 1963
  • Type: sculpture
  • Medium: white marble
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