Copy after a Sculpture of the Sleeping Eros Based on an Antique Model (from Cassiano dal Pozzo's 'Paper Museum')

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Artist: Giovanni Angelo Canini (Italian, Rome ca. 1609-17–1666 Rome)
Date: ca. 1630
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash; framing lines in pen and brown ink on paper
Dimensions: 8 9/16 x 12 5/8in. (21.7 x 32.1cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1945
Accession no.: 45.36

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Giovanni Angelo Canini
1615–66 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019716
The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Anthony of Padua and a Hermit
Giovanni Angelo Canini
1615–66 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019717
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Giovanni Angelo Canini
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Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00022520

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.