Cupid
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Anatomy and Art, The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO, May 8-June 5, 1960, no. 86, as Eros.
Henry J. Pfungst (1844-1917), London, by 1901;
Purchased from Pfungst, through Durlacher Brothers, by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), London and New York, 1901-1913;
With Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., New York, by April 11, 1929;
Purchased from Seligmann, Rey and Co. by Brummer Gallery, New York, stock no. N2684, April 11, 1929-December 13, 1943 [1];
Purchased from Brummer by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1943.
NOTES:
[1] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Library and Archive, Brummer Gallery Records, Greek glass, gold, jewelry, and terra-cotta, Object inventory card number N2684.
Possibly Henry Joseph Pfungst, Descriptive Catalogue of A Small Collection, Principally of XVth and XVIth Century Bronzes (London: Leadenhall Press, 1901), 4, (repro.), attributed to Donatello, as Cupid stretching, as if he had shot an arrow into the air.
Wilhelm Bode, Collection of J. Pierpont Morgan: Bronzes of the Renaissance and Subsequent Periods (Paris: Librairie Centrale des beaux-Arts, 1910), 1: xxxvi; 2: 19-20, (repro.), as Cupid.
“Anatomy and Art,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) 3, no. 1 (May 8-June 5, 1960): 27, as Eros.
Nicolas Penny, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 1540 to the present day, vol. 1, Italian (Oxford: Claraendon Press, 1992), xxviii.
