IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 13990 accession number: M.16-1979 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 3 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Copper alloy, probably bronze. Cupid is balanced on his left leg, loosing an arrow (lost). He has a fairly large head, small sloping shoulders, a well-defined chest, pot-belly, indented navel, tiny genitals, and thick-set limbs. His face has a prominent forehead, chubby cheeks, lemon-shaped eyes, a puggish nose and a small double-chin. Modern, cast-on circular base. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: E.G. Raphael Collection, Mayfair; purchased by C.G. Copper, August 1944; sold to Lt. Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, D.S.O., M.C., January 1945; lent to the Fitzwilliam Museum, 1946; Given anonymously, from the collection of Lt. Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, D.S.O., M.C., in his memory, 1979. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given anonymously, from the collection of Lt. Col. the Hon. M.T. Boscawen, D.S.O., M.C., in his memory STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13990 PEOPLE ------------------- Cupid TECHNIQUES ---------- copper alloy, probably bronze, cast casting (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1475 - 1500 creation date earliest: 1475 creation date latest: 1500 culture: 15th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 29.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Boscawen Collection: Renaissance Bronzes title: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge title: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (2005) CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The Annual Reports of the Syndicate and of the Friends of the Fitzwilliam for the Year ending 31 December 1975 The Boscawen Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_16_1979.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 596 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_M_16_1979.jpg height: 638 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_16_1979.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 596 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_M_16_1979.jpg height: 319 pixels width: 250 pixels