Head of a Sleeping Cupid

1st century BCE-3rd century CE (Roman Imperial)

14.5 cm 16.5 cm

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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...

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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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