Cupid

Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, c. 1520

Antico worked in Mantua, where for many years he was in the service of the noble Gonzaga family. He specialized in the manufacture of bronze statuettes, whose subject matter and style were modelled on examples from Classical antiquity. This particular statuette may have been intended for the collection of Isabella d’Este, the art-loving wife of Francesco Gonzaga.

  • Artwork typefigure
  • Object numberBK-16936-1
  • Dimensionsheight 29 cm x height 32.5 cm x width 18 cm x depth 11.5 cm, diameter 11.5 cm

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Cupid

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-16936-1

  • Description

    Op een geprofileerde, schijfvormige plint staat Amor op het naar voren geplaatste linkerbeen en met de hiel van de rechtervoet iets van de plint. Hij houdt de linkerarm gestrekt voor zich uit en de gebogen rechter omhoog. Het krullende haar, op het voorhoofd door een band tot een toefje samengebonden, valt tot in de nek. Hij heeft kleine vleugels. Van de rechterschouder loopt een band, die op de linkerzijde wordt samengehouden.


Creation

  • Creation

    • sculptor: Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, Mantua
    • bronze caster: Meester Johan, Mantua
  • Dating

    c. 1520

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Material and technique

  • Dimensions

    • height 29 cm x height 32.5 cm x width 18 cm x depth 11.5 cm
    • diameter 11.5 cm

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  • Provenance

    Inv.;…; collection John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York, 1910;{Von Bode I, 1910, p. 22, no. 79, image 48.}…; ? collection Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), New York, 1922;{Von Bode 1922, p. 35, image 29C.}…; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, before 1933;{Photo album ‘Het huis van Dr F. Mannheimer, Amsterdam’, 1928-32, Rijksmuseum, inv. no. B-F-1963-426-27.} from whom, fl. 6,350,000, en bloc, to Artistic & General Securities Ltd. as security for a loan from the Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, but kept in usufruct, 1934;{NHA, 476, RMA Archive, inv. no. 2142, Recapitulatie der geïnventariseerde kunstvoorwerpen van wijlen Dr F. Mannheimer, undated, p. 86, no. Br 27, Artistic no. 29/46; NHA, 233, Arrondissementsrechtbank Amsterdam, inv. no. 1365, “O.R. 256/1939, Faillissementsdossier: nalatenschap Dr. F. Mannheimer, 28 augustus 1939”, image 3, page 2.} purchased from Mendelssohn & Co. Bank, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

  • Remarks

    Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.


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