Putto
Attributed to
Francois Duquesnoy
(Flemish, 1597 - 1643)
Date1630s
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 18 3/4 × 5 × 6 3/8 inches (47.63 × 12.7 × 16.19 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number66-26/2
On View
On viewGallery Location
- 114
Collections
Exhibition HistoryN/A
In 1618 Duquesnoy left his native Flanders for Rome where he soon became widely known for his small-scale sculptures, most notably those of putti, or cherubs. These charming models (here the putto holds a bow and arrow) became quite fashionable and were eagerly sought by collectors and artists alike. Though this bronze survives in no other version, it relates to a larger compositional group by Duquesnoy of Apollo and Cupid, which exists in several versions.
Purchased from Michael Hall Fine Arts, Inc., by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1966.
Ralph T. Coe, “Small European Sculptures,” Apollo 96, no. 130 (December 1972): 51, (repro.). [repr. in Denys Sutton, ed., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City (London: Apollo Magazine, 1972), 51].
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