Cast Gallery catalogue number: C014

Boy, possibly Eros.

• Plaster cast: Height: 1.53m.
• Copy of a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is known as Eros Soranzo.
  • is a version of a Greek bronze original of about 470-460 BC.
  • is said to have been found either in Istanbul or on an Aegean island.
  • was acquired by the Hermitage from Palazzo Soranzo in Venice in 1851.
  • is now in St Petersburg, Hermitage, 85.