Advanced Search 
Eros with a goose
Greek
Hellenistic Period
200–140 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Terracotta
Dimensions
Height: 17 cm (6 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bartlett Collection—Museum purchase with funds from the Francis Bartlett Donation of 1900
Accession Number03.889
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionEros. Dressed as a girl; holds a bunch of grapes away from a goose at his right side. White ground terracotta; Eros' hair redbrown; legs of goose red; Eros' face yellow; outer feathers of wings, grapes, goose's body blue; clothing and inner feathers of wings pink; top of pedestal blue-gray.
Greece or Asia Minor.
Greece or Asia Minor.
ProvenanceDate unknown: Lécuyer collection; by 1903: with Edward Perry Warren; purchased from Edward Perry Warren by MFA, 1903