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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1940.50.A-B
People
John Gibson, British (Conwy, Wales 1790 - 1866 Rome, Italy)
Title
Cupid Disguised as a Shepherd
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Cupid / Cupid Disguised as a Shepherd Boy
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
c. 1840
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230259

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Marble
Dimensions
131.5 x 40.7 x 41 cm (51 3/4 x 16 x 16 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Gibson, created 1840-1850, sold; ? to Henry Farnum (Philadelphia, PA), bequeathed; to Mrs. Mary Ellis Farnum, New York, NY, bequeathed; to Caroline Farnum (Bell), bequeathed; to Edith Bell, bequeathed; to anonymous owner, Boston, MA, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1940.

Footnotes: see correspondence from artist in curatorial file.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Gift
Accession Year
1940
Object Number
1940.50.A-B
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John M. Hunisak, Castings, Casts and Replicas: Nineteenth-Century Sculpture from Europe and America in New England Collections, exh. cat., Middlebury College Museum of Art (Middlebury, VT, 1994), no. 17, p. 80, repr.
  • Roberto C. Ferrari, John Gibson, designer: sculpture and reproductive media in the nineteenth century, Journal of Art Historiography ([e-journal], November 2015), pp. 4-18

Exhibition History

  • Carvings, Casts, & Replicas: nineteenth-century sculpture from Europe & America in New England collections, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, 09/22/1994 - 12/11/1994; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 01/26/1995 - 04/23/1995
  • Sublimations: Art and Sensuality in the 19th Century, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/13/1996 - 07/21/2002

Verification Level

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