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Male Figure

c. 1760

Ignaz Günther

(German, 1725–1775)

Germany, Munich, 18th century

Lindenwood

Overall: 95.3 x 65.4 x 31.8 cm (37 1/2 x 25 3/4 x 12 1/2 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1973.101

Location

214 Central and Northern European

Description

This sensuously carved figure probably functioned as a term, an architectural element that incorporates a head and torso atop a tapering pillar typically used as a decorative support, for example on either side of a doorway. The sculpture was likely originally gilded, which would have enhanced appreciation of the torso’s beautifully articulated musculature.

Provenance

Munich collection, c. 1890

Stanford White (New York, New York)

Robert W. White (New York, New York)

Michael Hall Fine Art, (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1973.

Citations

Maser, Edward A. "18th Century in Europe and the United States." In Encyclopedia of World Art, vol. XVI, Bernard S. Myers, ed., 211-238. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959. Mentioned: p. 217; reproduced: pl. 243

"The Year in Review for 1973." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (1974): 31-78. Mentioned: cat. no. 6, p. 73; Reproduced p. 45 www.jstor.org

Woeckel, Gerhard P. Ignaz Günther: die Handzeichnungen des kurfürstlich bayerischen Hofbildhauers Franz Ignaz Günther (1725-1775). Weissenhorn, Germany: A. Konrad, 1975. Mentioned: p. 342-345; Reproduced: fig. 274,275,277

Cleveland Museum of Art, Gabriel P. Weisberg, and H. W. Janson. Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975. Mentioned: cat. no. 4

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 166 archive.org

Ditner, David Charles. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Dissertation. Cleveland, OH: Case Western Reserve University,1986. Mentioned: p. 356-360; fig. 45a

Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1973. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).

Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).

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