Children Playing

3rd quarter 16th century (Renaissance)

14.7 cm 8.4 cm

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This plaque is one of four which were the ends of the lids of two caskets decorated with allegorical children's games. Here, two Cupids are contesting for a puppy. A nude boy, kneeling between them, brandishes the bow of one of the Cupids.

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4822
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Raoul Heilbronner, Paris, [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1910, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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