Minerva Shielding a Sleeping Youth from the Arrow of Cupid and the Wiles of Venus

1797

5.1 cm 6.3 cm

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This miniature, signed "Sully 1797," was acquired with a paper suggesting it had been presented by Thomas Sully of Richmond, Virginia, to Mr. Edmund Roots of Richmond. A small number of other non-portrait miniatures by Sully are known; one, a memorial to his mother, can be fou...

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Mr. Edmund Roots, Richmond, [date of acquisition unknown] by gift [from the artist]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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