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Sleeping Cupid

about 1610-1615

Follower of Michelangelo M. Caravaggio (Italian, 1573–1610)

2010.39

On display in H208

oil paintcanvaspainting

Artwork Details

ArtistCreation Date
about 1610-1615
Creation Location
Italy
Materials
oil on canvas
Object Types
paintings, oil paintings
Dimensions

25-7/8 x 41-1/4 in. (canvas) approximately 34-1/2 x 49-1/4 x 4-1/4 in. (framed)

Accession Number
2010.39
Credit Line

The Clowes Collection

Copyright
Public Domain
Collection

European Painting and Sculpture Before 1800

Color Palette

Private Collection, Ireland.{1} (Ivan N. Podgoursky [1901-1962], New York) by 1948; G.H.A. Clowes [1877-1958], Indianapolis, in 1952; Clowes Fund Collection, Indianapolis, since 1958; On long-term loan to the Indianapolis Museum of Art since 1971 (C10016); Given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 2010 (2010.39). ------- {1} A. Ian Frasier, former curator of the Clowes Collection, writes in A Catalogue of the Clowes Collection, Indianapolis 1973, p. xxvii: "For a long time this picture was in a convent in Ireland." This information has not been verified.



Exhibition Name

Venue

Dates

Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

Chengdu Museum

September 29, 2020 - January 4, 2021

Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

Hunan Provincial Museum

May 29, 2020 - September 13, 2020

Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from the Clowes Collection and the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

Guandong Museum

January 10, 2020 - May 17, 2020

Da Leonardo a Caravaggio

Palazzo Reale

October 4, 2000 - February 25, 2001

Gods and Heroes Baroque Images of Antiquity

Wildenstein & Company, Inc.

1968 - 1969

Art in Italy, 1600-1700

Detroit Institute of Arts

1965 - 1965

Italian and Spanish Paintings from the Clowes Collecltion

Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

October 1, 1962 - October 25, 1962

Paintings from the Collection of George Henry Alexander Clowes

John Herron Art Institute and Museum

October 3, 1959 - November 1, 1959



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