Venus and Cupid

Details

• Title

  Venus and Cupid

• Artist/maker

  follower of Giovanni Bologna (1529 - 1608)

• Associated place

  Europe › Italy (probable) (probable place of creation)

• Date

  c. 1650

• Material and technique

  bronze, with gold varnish, lost-wax cast

• Object type

  sculpture › figure › statue

• Dimensions

  12.5 cm including integral plinth (height)
  4.45 cm of integral plinth (length)
  3.3 cm of integral plinth (width)
  6 cm of porphyry base (height)
  7.8 cm of porphyry base (length)
  6.5 cm of porphyry base (width)

  more

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by C. D. E. Fortnum, 1888.

• Museum location

  Second floor | Gallery 56 | Arts of the Renaissance

• Museum department

  Western Art

• Accession no.

  WA1888.CDEF.B426

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