Head of a Sleeping Cupid
Cupid, the god of love and son of Venus, resting from his strenuous job of causing humans to fall in love, was a popular motif during the Roman imperial period. This fragment might have belonged to a sarcophagus and may, in fact, actually represent Hypnos, god of sleep.Sculptu...
Sculpture
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40492
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sculpture
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stage
normalized
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provenance
Giovanni Dattari, Cairo, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Lambros-Dattari Sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1912, June 17-19, 1912, p. 41, no. 340; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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language
en
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1
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import
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/23.134 |