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Putti and a Young Eros in a Forest Glen
Putti and a Young Eros in a Forest Glen

Putti and a Young Eros in a Forest Glen

Artist Arnold Böcklin German, 1827–1901
Date1861
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions15 1/2 x 20 in. (39.4 x 50.8 cm)
Frame: 26 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. (67.9 x 57.8 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineAnonymous Gift
Object number2011.15.2
On View
Not on view
ProvenancePaul Cassirer, Berlin; sold to Dr. Max Emden, Hamburg, Germany, n.d.; [Emden Collection Sale, Berlin, Hermann Ball & Paul Graupe, June 9, 1931, lot 12 (as Zwei Puttenszenen, illus. pl. 4); Prof. and Mrs. Arthur Woldemar Meyer, Berlin; to son Horst Meyer, 1933; [held in trust by adoptive parents, Prof. and Mrs. Kurt Heinrich Meyer, Geneva, Switzerland, 1933–1979]; Prof. and Mrs. Horst Meyer, Durham, NC, 1979; given to NCMA, 2011.
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