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THE PROPERTY OF THE MORVEN COLLECTION
A LATE HELLENISTIC or ROMAN BRONZE CUPID
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
Details
A LATE HELLENISTIC or ROMAN BRONZE CUPID
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
Holding a goose in the crook of his bent left arm, his hand on its body, its wing overlapping his forearm, gripping its neck in his right hand, the paunchy young god depicted nude, standing with his left leg advanced, his wings slightly raised, his wavy hair with a central plait and separately-made and now-missing top-knot
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
Holding a goose in the crook of his bent left arm, his hand on its body, its wing overlapping his forearm, gripping its neck in his right hand, the paunchy young god depicted nude, standing with his left leg advanced, his wings slightly raised, his wavy hair with a central plait and separately-made and now-missing top-knot
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high
Provenance
with Royal-Athena Galleries, New York, 1981.
with Old World Galleries, New York.
with Old World Galleries, New York.
Literature
C.C. Vermeule and J.M. Eisenberg, Catalogue of the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Bronzes in the Collection of John Kluge, New York and Boston, 1992, no. 81-48.