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Cupids Making Garlands, (sculpture). Artist:  Bitter, Karl, 1867-1915, sculptor. (possibly by) Bouchardon, Edme, 1698-1762, sculptor. (copy after) Title:  Cupids Making Garlands, (sculpture). Digital Reference:  Medium:  Sculpture: Carrara marble; Base: brick. Dimensions:  Sculpture: approx. 2 1/2 ft. x 6 ft. x 8 in.; Diam. 13 ft.; Base: approx. H. 6 ft. Description:  A relief plaque of six nude cupids frolicking around an overturned urn, with a band of garlands interwoven between them. On the right side of the relief is an urn atop a pedestal. Subject:  Mythology -- Classical -- Cupid Object -- Other -- Vase Object -- Foliage Object Type:  Outdoor Sculpture -- Kansas -- Prairie Village Relief Sculpture Owner:  Administered by Prairie Hills Homes Association, P. O. Box 8195, Prairie Village, Kansas Located Prairie Village Shopping Center, 69th & Tomahawk, Circular island at entrance, Prairie Village, Kansas Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Vanderbilt, Cornelius, Fifth Avenue & 58th Street, New York, New York Remarks:  The sculpture is styled after the works of the 17th century French artist Edme Bouchardon. The relief plaque formerly decorated the entrance foyer of the New York mansion of Cornelius Vanderbilt III. The mansion was built around 1880 and razed in 1928. IAS files contain a related brochure "The Outdoor Art of the Country Club District," Kansas City, MO: J. C. Nichols Company, 1978. A companion plaque of cupids making music is located at 63rd & Indian Lane, in Mission Hills (Kansas). References:  Save Outdoor Sculpture, Kansas survey, 1994. Illustration:  Image on file. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAS KS000514   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Sculpture KS000514 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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