Cupid

Provenance

Possibly Fermier-général Bouret, Paris, before 1757.[1] Sir Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th marquess of Hertford [1800-1870], London and Paris, by 1865;[2] by inheritance to his illegitimate son, Sir Richard Wallace [1818-1890], London and Paris; by inheritance to his wife, Julie-Amélie-Charlotte Castelnau, Lady Wallace [1819-1897], Paris and London; by inheritance to her adviser and secretary, Sir John Murray Scott [1847-1912], London and Paris; by inheritance to his friend, Victoria Sackville-West, Lady Sackville [1864-1936], Paris; sold 1913 to (Jacques Seligmann et Cie, Paris and New York); sold 1914 to Ivor Churchill Guest, 2nd baron and 1st viscount Wimborne [1873-1939], Canford Manor, Wimborne; (his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 6-8 March 1923, 2nd day, no. 256); Matthews.[3] Mortimer L. Schiff [1877-1931], New York; (his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 22-23 June 1938, 1st day, no. 34); (Jacques Seligmann et Cie, Paris and New York); sold 11 May 1950 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1952 to NGA. [1] See entry by Charles Avery in Ulrich Middeldorf, _Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection_, London, 1976:102-104. [2] Lord Hertford lent the sculpture to the Musée Retrospectif, held in Paris in 1865. See F.J.B. Watson, "Lord Hertford and the Musée Retrospectif of 1865," _Apollo_ 81 (June 1965): 436, fig. 2. [3] A copy of the 1923 sale catalogue in the library of the Getty Research Institute is annotated with the buyer's name "Matthews" (copy in NGA curatorial files).

Cupid

Bouchardon, Edme

1744

Accession Number

1952.5.93

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 74.3 × 35.56 × 31.75 cm (29 1/4 × 14 × 12 1/2 in.) | gross weight: 75 lb. (34.02 kg)

Classification

Sculpture

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection