Venus and Cupid
Statuette
19th century (cast)
19th century (cast)
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This bronze statuette representing Venus and Cupid is cast after an ivory carved in 1624 by Georg Petel for Rubens, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The bronze has been considered to be possibly a cast made in Antwerp only very slightly after the date of the ivory, but the fact that Cupid appears in it without wings indicates that it was cast after the ivory, in which Cupid's left wing is now missing, had been broken. In technical terms the cast is wholly modern in character, from the 19th century.
Object details
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| Title | Venus and Cupid (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Bronze |
| Brief description | Statuette, bronze, Venus and Cupid, after an ivory carved by Georg Petel in 1624, this bronze cast in Germany, 19th century |
| Physical description | Venus standing naked except her right palm covering the genitals. At her left hand she holds Cupid. |
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| Object history | Given by Dr. W. L. Hildburgh, F. S. A., 1956. Cast after an ivory carved in 1624 by Georg Petel for Rubens, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The bronze has been considered to be possibly a cast made in Antwerp only very slightly after the date of the ivory, but the fact that Cupid appears in it without wings indicates that it was cast after the ivory, in which Cupid's left wing is now missing, had been broken. In technical terms the cast is wholly modern in character. |
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| Summary | This bronze statuette representing Venus and Cupid is cast after an ivory carved in 1624 by Georg Petel for Rubens, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The bronze has been considered to be possibly a cast made in Antwerp only very slightly after the date of the ivory, but the fact that Cupid appears in it without wings indicates that it was cast after the ivory, in which Cupid's left wing is now missing, had been broken. In technical terms the cast is wholly modern in character, from the 19th century. |
| Bibliographic reference | Penny, Nicholas. Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum. 1540 to the Present-Day, Vol II, Oxford, 1992, cat. no. 361 |
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| Accession number | A.27-1956 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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