Cupid Holding a Laurel Wreath and Spear

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1898.20
People: Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, la Marquise de Pompadour, French (1721 - 1764)
Title: Cupid Holding a Laurel Wreath and Spear
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1751-1752
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/299665

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Red chalk on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.2 cm (3 7/8 x 3 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Tucker of Exeter. John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Belinda L. Randall from the collection of John Witt Randall
Accession Year: 1898
Object Number: 1898.20
Division: European and American Art
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Publication History

Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), no. 611

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