Cupid on Horseback
Note that the work cited here is only a possible match with the seventeenth-century record. See J. Pope-Hennessey, Burlington Magazine, 1953
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 94, № 17
Francesco Fanelli, Francesco the one-eyed Italian
little Running Horse, with two Cupids, one riding one running
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
6½in x 0in (16.5cm high)
Medium:
bronze varnished black
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
bought
Notes:
[Not of the 18 Florentine bronzes]
Location:
Room description extended:
Your Majesty's statues placed round about the Cabinet Room; 36 including 16 of the 18 little statues which came to your majesty by the decease of Prince Henry; the other 2 are in the Chair Room
Original Manuscript page number:
Windsor MS., f. 25
Identification certainty:
Possible
Sale Inventory c.1649-51