- Titles Cupid and Gazelle (Proper)
- Artist Carl Paul Jennewein, American, born Germany, 1890 - 1978@Cast by, Priessmann, Bauer & Co., Munich, Germany, est. 1908
- Medium bronze with black patina, gilding, and polychrome; marble base (not original)
- Dimensions overall with marble base: 29 1/8 × 20 1/4 × 8 1/4 in. (74 × 51.4 × 21 cm) bronze base: 18 1/8 × 5 3/4 in. (46 × 14.6 cm) marble base: 20 5/8 × 8 3/16 in. (52.4 × 20.8 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase with funds provided by James Milton and Sallie R. Johnson, AFI.25.2013
- Work Type sculpture
- Classification Sculpture
- On View
- Inscription Inscribed, center of base between legs: C. P. JENNEWEIN ROMA . 1919. / ©. Stamped on edge of base below hind legs: P.B.u.Co [Priessmann, Bauer & Co. foundry] MÜNCHEN MADE IN GERMANY
- Provenance Carl Paul Jennewein; purchased by Junius Spencer Morgan III (1892-1960), Glen Cove, New York, about 1925; By bequest to his wife, Louise Converse Morgan (1895-1974), Glen Cove, New York; By descent, 1974, to her son, John Pierpont Morgan II (1908-2004), Mill Neck, New York; Estate of John Pierpont Morgan II, 2004; With Sotheby’s, New York, 16 September 2005, lot 61; By purchase, Abby M. Taylor Fine Art, Greenwich, Conn. and Glenn C. Peck; With Christie’s, New York, 4 December 2008, lot 103 [bought in]; By purchase, 2013, The Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Ala.
Notes: Junius Spencer Morgan III (1892-1960) was the son of John Pierpont “Jack” Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), and grandson of the famed financier J. P. Morgan (1837-1913). Junius Spencer Morgan III named his son John P. Morgan II (1908-2004), and he too went by the nickname “Jack.”
The provenance provided to the BMA by Abby M. Taylor Fine Art did not include the wife of Junius Spencer Morgan III, Louise Converse Morgan. After Junius Morgan died in 1960, Mrs. Morgan continued to live at “Salutation,” their sumptuous Glen Cove, Long Island home until her death in 1974, whereupon it was sold by her children. The collection of Louise C. Morgan was sold by Sotheby Parke Bernet at a four-day sale on the estate from May 29 – June 1, 1974 (catalogue no. 3649).