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Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

Male Figure

Male Figure

c. 1760
(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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).
    Year in Review: 1973. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).
  • {{cite web|title=Male Figure|url=false|author=Ignaz Günther|year=c. 1760|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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