Eros
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1500 - 1599
Materials
Bronze
Measurements
345 mm high
Order this imageCollection
Petworth House and Park, West Sussex
NT 485293
Summary
Bronze, Eros, 16th century. A statuette of Eros with a quiver and looking upwards as though shooting an arrow, but bow missing.
Provenance
By descent, until the death in 1952 of the 3rd Lord Leconfield, who had given Petworth to the National Trust in 1947, and whose nephew and heir, John Wyndham, 6th Lord Leconfield and 1st Lord Egremont (1920-72) arranged for the acceptance of the major portion of the collections at Petworth in lieu of death duties (the first ever such arrangement) in 1956 by H.M.Treasury.
Marks and inscriptions
78 (painted in white on front of base)