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A sleeping cupid

After Guido Reni Italian
1630–45
Not on view
Many statues of sleeping cupids survived from antiquity, inspiring artists such Michelangelo and François Duquesnoy to sculpt their own versions. Reni's painted representations of sleeping infants, including the Christ Child, were particularly prized, as was this print, which the seventeenth-century art historian Carlo Cesare Malvasia called 'the famous head of the sleeping Cupid.'

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: A sleeping cupid
  • Artist: Bartolomeo Coriolano (Italian, Bologna ca. 1599–ca. 1676 Bologna (?))
  • Artist: After Guido Reni (Italian, Bologna 1575–1642 Bologna)
  • Date: 1630–45
  • Medium: Chiaroscuro woodcut in blue-gray and black printed from two blocks
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 11 5/8 × 14 5/8 in. (29.5 × 37.2 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1922
  • Object Number: 22.73.3-107
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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