Sleeping Infant

1641 (Baroque)

12 cm 3.1 cm 6 cm

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The subject of a sleeping infant in ivory was popular with collectors as an amusing response to Greek or Roman statues of a sleeping Cupid that were known in the Renaissance. The Antwerp collector Nicholas Rochox treasured a fragment of a Roman "Sleeping Cupid" among his antiq...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1900, by purchase [in Amsterdam]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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