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| Keywords: Roman - Head of a Sleeping Cupid - Walters 23134.jpg Cupid the god of love and son of Venus resting from his strenuous job of causing humans to fall in love was a popular motif during the Roman imperial period This fragment might have belonged to a sarcophagus and may in fact actually represent Hypnos god of sleep Sculptures of the subject were popular with 16th and 17th-century collectors in Antwerp both Peter Paul Rubens and Nicolas Rockox owned marble Sleeping Cupids that they believed to be antique Rubens's is not traceable but that of Rockox in the National Museum Copenhagen is now thought to date to the 16th century century 1 BC - century 3 AD Imperial marble cm 16 5 14 5 accession number 23 134 40492 Giovanni Dattari Sale Cairo Paris June 17-19 1912 no 340 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters place of origin Rome Italy Walters Art Museum license Ancient Roman sculptures in the Walters Art Museum Cupids in ancient Roman art Sleeping Cupid in sculptures Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
