Venus and Cupid

Inscriptions

in ligature incised into base at front right corner: "Feuchere"; below are some marks that might be a date, but are illegible.

Provenance

[Shepherd Gallery, Associates, New York]

Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981). The Persistence of Classicism in Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1988-January 15, 1989).

Quick Overview

Artist: Jean-Jacques Feuchère (French, 1807–1852)
Date: c. 1840–1850
Medium: terracotta
Dimensions: Overall: 19.7 x 21.7 x 13.1 cm (7 3/4 x 8 9/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
Type: Sculpture
Classification: Sculpture
Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Credit line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kashey and Martin L. H. Reymert in memory of Noah L. Butkin
Accession no.: 1980.72

More by Jean-Jacques Feuchère in museum collections

Amazon Taming a Horse
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c. 1840–1843 · Sculpture
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00010838
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Jean-Jacques Feuchère
1820–52 · Drawing
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019587

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.