Cupid stringing his bow, Francesco Righetti, 1781
casting, h 133cm × w 98cm × d 53cm × w 222.5kg More details
Francesco Righetti specialized in producing copies in bronze or lead of famous sculptures from classical Antiquity. The set of lead statues he made for Welgelegen near Haarlem between 1781 and 1801 – to which this Cupid belongs – are Righetti’s only surviving life-size reproductions.
