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Sleeping Cupid

Lost Art-ID

592242

Artist / Creator

Fra Antonio da Brescia (1487)

Place of activity

Brescia, Padua, Treviso, Venedig, Verona

First mentioned

1487

Last mentioned

1514

Title

Sleeping Cupid

Dating

1480-1500

Object type

Medal / badge

Group of reported objects

Numismatics

Material / Technique

Metal (Bronze) / cast

Diameter

6.50 cm

Description

Bange-WV, Nr.: 643 (Α. N. 970. Inv. 1197.) Titel: Schlafender Amor. Dressed in a short shirt, Cupid sits leaning against a pedestal from which a quiver and bow hang. On the right a meadow with a tree. Used by Pastorino as lapel of the Gracia Nasi medal (Armand I, 202, 86). A hollow form of this plaque is in the Ambrosiana in Milan. Half relief. Bronze. Round. Dm. 6,5 cm. At the top and at the bottom one hole each. Art Chamber;

Planiscig, 1936, Nr. 49: Titel: Schlafender Amor, bronze plaque. Diameter: 6'5 cm.

Provenance

Collection Erich Lederer, Vienna (1936); to Johann Baptist Gudenus, Vienna for safekeeping (until 1945 - looted during the last days of the war); [...]; whereabouts unknown

Literature / Source

Molinier, Les plaq. Nr. 120; E. L. Bange, Die italienischen Bronzen der Renaissance und des Barock, 2. Teil: Reliefs und Plaketten, Berlin 1922, Nr. 643, Abb. Tafel 56; Leo Planiscig, Ernst Kris, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Juni-Juli 1936, Nr. 49 (Sammlung L., Wien); Sophie Lillie, Klimt's Women Collectors: The Pulitzer Sisters Szerena Lederer, Jenny Steiner and Aranka Munk, Diss. Wien, 2014, S. 197

Published since

17.11.2020

Contact

Please contact the German Lost Art Foundation.