The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Adam

c. 1535

Daniel Mauch

(German, 1477–1540)
Germany
boxwood
Overall: 18.3 x 7 x 4 cm (7 3/16 x 2 3/4 x 1 9/16 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1946.429.1
Location: 114 Late Northern Renaissance

Description

Mauch straddled the late medieval and Renaissance traditions in his career. These small-scale statuettes, however, each made from a single piece of boxwood, stem from the most progressive strands of Renaissance art in southern Germany, closely connected to developments in both Italian and German bronze sculpture. The bodies reveal Mauch's careful study of human anatomy as well as a rapport with Albrecht Dürer's well-known print of the same subject.
  • Dr. Ernö Wittmann (Budapest, Hungary), died 1963, sold through M & R Stora & Co. (New York, New York) to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1946.
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 106 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 106 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 126 archive.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 178
  • Daniel Mauch. Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany (organizer) (September 13-November 29, 2009).
    Ulmer Museum , Ulm Germany (9/13/2009 - 11/29/2009): "Daniel Mauch", ex. cat. no. 47, p. 309 - 312.
    Exhibition of the Month: Of Wood and Stone. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 15-June 2, 1949).
    Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, (fall, 1943-1944): "15th and 16th c. Sculpture in Bronze and Wood, lent by Dr. Ernst Wittman," (no cat.), as by Conrad Meit.
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1946.429.1