Statuette of a Sleeping Cupid

Place of OriginGreek, Archaic (Boeotian?)

Datemid 8th-early 5th Century BCE

DimensionsWith Base: 4 3/8 × 4 × 3 in. (11.1 × 10.2 × 7.6 cm)

MediumTerracotta

ClassificationSculpture

Credit LineGift of Richard C. and Betty G. Veler

Object number

2009.406

Not on View

DescriptionTerracotta figurine of a sleeping winged child - the love god Cupid (Eros to the Greeks).

250-150 BCE

Menzies Group

375-350 BCE

Unidentified

2nd century CE

about 450-430 BCE

500-450 BCE

160-180 CE

Aristide Maillol

1937

1792

Magdalene Odundo

1988

250-150 BCE

Robert Calderwood

about 1746

4th-3rd century BCE

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